Michael Rosen with Rabih Alameddine and Guests

Join Michael Rosen at this special event with fellow authors including Rabih Alameddine, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for his epic tragi-comedy The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). They reflect on how hope lives in their work, not as naive optimism, but as resilience, imagination and moral courage. In turbulent times, what does it mean for writers to speak of hope? Is hope in serious literature a form of solace, an act of resistance or something more quietly radical?