How does fiction confront the moral weight of history? And what responsibilities do writers bear in retelling it? In this panel, our authors will explore the intersections of empire, revolution and redemption, revealing how the echoes of the past shape identity, justice and truth in the present.

Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recently released novel is “Now I Surrender." He is also the author of “You Dreamed of Empires.” His work has appeared in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications....

Nathan Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Sweetness of Water," an Oprah’s Book Club pick. It was the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and longlisted for the Booker Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize....


