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Mar 18, 2025
Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright and National Book Award-finalist Elliot Ackerman join us for the launch of Wright’s new novel, The Human Scale — a masterfully-crafted thriller set in the heart of Israel and Palestine.
In his peerless reportage for The New Yorker and bestselling non-fiction like The Looming Tower and Going Clear, Lawrence Wright brings novelistic grandeur to his incisive accounts of 9/11 and the birth of Scientology. In The Human Scale, Wright does the reverse — bringing unparalleled geopolitical insight and research to a gripping murder mystery. Following an FBI agent of Irish and Palestinian descent entangled in a murder investigation in Gaza with a hardline Israeli cop, The Human Scale is a police procedural like none other — the story of two officers forced to confront their own prejudices in the pursuit of justice.
In the vein of John le Carré and Graham Greene, this is Lawrence Wright at the height of his powers. With compassion, intelligence, and nerve, The Human Scale shines a new light on the toll of Israel and Palestine’s devastating shared history. Don’t miss this special reading from the novel, and hear Wright discuss his gripping tale — and find out what it can tell us about the most consequential geopolitical crisis of our time.
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