Author RVA: “The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World” with Atossa A. Abrahamian

Description

Join Lit Hub senior editor and novelist Jessie Gaynor, author and NPR host Mary Childs, and CMC Director Chioke I’Anson for a series of author conversations. We'll hear how contemporary novelists, journalists, and memoirists tackle their craft, find inspiration, and quiet the creative doubt.

In this session, we’ll be speaking with Atossa Abrahamian, an independent journalist who writes about the cracks in the nation-state system. Her new book, The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, takes a revelatory look at a globe-spanning collection of offshore jurisdictions, legal black holes, and free zones that allow nations to use loopholes to skirt their own laws and to abdicate their law-enforcing powers in aid of tax-evading elites. We’ll discuss her journalistic approach, as well as the ways in which these twentieth- and twenty-first-century liminal spaces contribute to a new mercenary world order.

Refeshments start being served at 5:30 PM with the discussion starting at 6:30 PM.

Date & Time

Sat, Mar 8, 2025 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Venue Details

Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University

601 West Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220

ICA at VCU