Presented by Hofstra University’s Department of English in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.

Celebrating Our Own

Faculty, alumni, and students of Hofstra discuss their published work and the craft of writing with

Álvaro Enrigue

Hofstra professor and award-winning author of Now I Surrender, You Dreamed of Empires With Natasha Wimmer

Monday, October 26, 2026, 6:30 p.m.

Guthart Cultural Center Theater, first floor, Axinn Library, South Campus

Join us at 5:30 p.m. for a light reception where the author’s titles will be available for purchase and signing.

Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.

Álvaro Enrigue is a Hofstra University associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and a Mexican writer. His novel, You Dreamed of Empires, was a New York Times Top 10 Book for 2024. He was a former fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Natasha Wimmer is a translator of contemporary fiction and literary nonfiction from Spanish to English and a regular visiting lecturer at Princeton University and Columbia University.

Select author’s titles will be available for purchase and signing.

Free and open to the public. Call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 for more information.

We are pleased to welcome the community, including family members, local schoolchildren, alumni and friends, to athletic and cultural events on campus. All events are free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required.