A Conversation with Maylis de Kerangal and John Freeman

Celebrated French author Maylis de Kerangal and American writer and literary critic John Freeman will discuss their latest...

Albertine Book Club

Join bestselling author and president of the 43rd Angoulême International Comics Festival jury, Antonin Baudry, for a...

Apocalypse-cinema

French philosopher Peter Szendy and NYU professor Emily Apter take on the apocalyptic genre not just as one genre among...

Couple Mechanics

French novelist Nelly Alard and author and author, translator and literary critic Liesl Schillinger discuss Alard’s last novel...

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...