MONDAY:
New York Times journalist Jennifer 8 Lee, fresh off an appearance on The Colbert Report and a turn irritating us, will appear at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue to talk about her book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. Lee went around the U.S. and investigated American “Chinese food.” $6. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:
The Library of Congress continues its Poetry at Noon series at the Mary Pickford Theater with the theme “Fathers and Daughters,” featuring poets Jody Bolz, Dan Logan and Preston Pulliam.

Parag Khanna will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his book The Second World — a look at the new global order and the roles the United States will and will not play in the future. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
Poet Edward Hirsch will hold a reading at American University’s Abramson Family Recital Hall, Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center, co-sponsored by the CAS Bishop C. C. McCabe Lecture Series. 8 p.m.