All Events

06.08.2023

An Evening with Quinn Slobodian and Hari Kunzru

Brooklyn, New York

06.08.2023

In his recent book, Crack-Up Capitalism, historian Quinn Slobodian describes a fractured global map of zones, libertarian laboratories, and offshore enclaves from Somalia and Liechtenstein to Hong Kong and Honduras. Hari Kunzru has explored similar terrain in his recent ...

08.14.2019

The Bad Society Cruise with Girlpool and Masters of Fright

New York, New York

08.14.2019

Join The Baffler as we set sail on the fetid waters of the East River for the first-ever Bad Society Cruise—with musical guests Girlpool and Masters of Fright—on the evening of Wednesday, August 14.  Boarding begins at 6:30 p.m. at Skyport Marina in Manhattan (2430 ...

05.29.2019

The Bad Society: Xenia Rubinos, Public Practice, and Blood Club

Brooklyn, New York

05.29.2019

MAY 29, 2019—THE BAD SOCIETY continues! Please join The Baffler for the next installment in our ongoing series of concerts and talks, this time at Brooklyn’s Murmrr Ballroom, following the release of our most recent issue, “Chronic Youth.” To commence our spring ...

01.24.2019

The Bad Society: Gauche, The Sediment Club, and Alice Cohen

Brooklyn, New York

01.24.2019

JANUARY 24, 2019—Please join The Baffler for an evening of music, readings, and conversation as we celebrate our first issue of 2019, Pilgrim’s Regress, and inaugurate THE BAD SOCIETY, our new series of concerts and talks for the disaffected and generally ...

08.25.2018

The Baffler’s 30th Anniversary Party with Deerhoof, Palberta

Brooklyn, New York

08.25.2018

SUMMER OF 1988: The Baffler is born as a punk literary magazine with the timeless proclamation, “Your Lifestyle Sucks.” A laugh in the face of academic jargon and the commercial avant-garde, The Baffler was instead a celebration of critical intelligence—taking to task ...

03.09.2018

The Baffler at AWP

Tampa, Florida

03.09.2018

As a respite from the throes of networking hell at AWP, The Baffler invites you to Tampa’s premier pirate-themed bar for a night of poetry and free booze. Join us Friday, March 9, at Gaspar’s Grotto (1805 E. 7th Avenue) starting at 6:30 p.m., whereupon we’ll be whipped ...

09.12.2017

A Crack in Everything

Brooklyn, New York

09.12.2017

Why is the project of dramatically upgrading the quality of our species-being so reliably doomed? Join us on September 12 at Littlefield to celebrate the publication of Issue 36, “A Crack in Everything,” and for a reading in which—as if by séance and certainly with the ...

06.15.2017

The Bad Society Launch Party

New York, New York

06.15.2017

Against our recent backdrop of horrifying blows to the body politic, any shred of good news feels like cause for celebration. When two unmistakably positive developments arise . . . well, we’re left with no option but to throw a party. On June 15, come help us celebrate ...

04.18.2017

Moral Hazards: Short-changed on Tax Day with Team Baffler

Washington, D.C.

04.18.2017

As we the disenchanted citizenry settle up with the United States Treasury, we invite you to join The Baffler in holding our mobbed-up American autocracy to account! On Tax Day 2017, a panel of Baffler contributors convening in the dark heart of Washington, D.C., will take full ...

12.08.2016

Launch Event for Baffler no. 33: “The Virtue Cartel”

Washington, D.C.

12.08.2016

At the dismal outset of the Trump age, The Baffler is still asking the tough questions. How did we come to the uncritical view that America’s corrupt, money-driven civitas is the breeding ground of public virtue? Who’s still selling the myth that our leaders are in ...

09.20.2016

Join the New Republic for a panel on defeating climate change

New York, New York

09.20.2016

Mobilizing to Defeat Climate Change Join our friends from the New Republic and three of our nation’s leading environmental activists, Bill McKibben, Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., and Elizabeth Yeampierre for a critical public conversation on climate change, its social, ...

09.14.2016

Managerial Liberalism and Our Discontent

Brooklyn, New York

09.14.2016

Come one, come all to A Public Space on September 14, 2016, for a truly thinkfluential panel on our misguided neoliberal elite. This is event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event will begin at 7 p.m.  Conservative America has lost its mind, ...