Roth Unbound
Claudia Roth Pierpont will join us to discuss Roth Unbound, her fascinating study of Philip Roth’s creative life. More than a...
The Life of Elves: An Evening with Muriel Barbery
Seven years after the publication of her international bestseller, ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog,’ Muriel Barbery returns with...
How To Talk About Places You’ve Never Been
Bestselling author of How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read Pierre Bayard and Paul Holdengräber, Director of the program...
The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy
The historian and Arabist Jean-Pierre Filiu will discuss his latest book published in the US, From Deep State to Islamic...
Barthes & Mythologies
One hundred years and three weeks after Barthes’s birth, Michael Wood and Ben Kafka will discuss the impact of ‘Mythologies’...
Maupassant’s Lasting Allure
Translator Sandra Smith and American poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard will discuss Smith’s new translation of...
The Conspiracists: New Writing from Madagascar
Join us as we celebrate the Madagascar issue of Words Without Borders with Naivo and Allison Charette.
The Only Street in Paris
Join us for a walk down one of the most charming streets in Paris, in the spirited company of Elaine Sciolino.
The Other Paris
Luc Sante will take us on a whirlwind tour of Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly...
Real Life Rock
Join us for a conversation with author Greil Marcus and poet and essayist Robert Polito as we celebrate the release of...