Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop | Martin Puchner in conversation with Merve Emre

Perhaps the most enthusiastic proponent of the importance of arts and humanities, Martin Puchner brings together a delightful history of humankind in his latest book, Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop. In an attempt to document cultural crescendos from ancient Greece to a time capsule left on the moon, the book alludes to fundamental questions about identity, community, and existence. Along with author and academic Merve Emre, Puchner elucidates the role of art in the propagation of knowledge and cultural discourses.

Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor at Harvard University. His prize-winning books range from philosophy to technology and the arts, and include The Written World, a WSJ bestseller that has been translated into twenty languages. His most recent book is Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop.

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Personality Brokers, The Ferrante Letters, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at the New Yorker.

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