Book Talk | Anand Giridharadas | Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, November 9 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Anand Giridharadas. He will discuss his new book, Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City, with Suketu Mehta.

Anand Giridharadas is the New York Times bestselling author of The Persuaders, Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time, and is the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. He is an on-air political analyst for MS NOW. He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Suketu Mehta is the author of This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto (2019), a compelling argument for why the United States would benefit from accepting more immigrants. Salman Rushdie said, “Written ‘in sorrow and anger,’ this is a brilliant and urgently necessary book, eloquently making the case against bigotry and for all of us migrants― what we are not, who we are, and why we deserve to be welcomed, not feared.” Mehta was a Pulitzer finalist for his 2004 book, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, an insider’s guide to a vast metropolis. An active journalist, NYU journalism professor, and long-time New Yorker, Mehta writes frequently about New York City, its immigrants, and the rise of Zohran Mamdani.