The Albertine Book Club

A monthly journey through French literature and ideas with Antonin Baudry. This month, we will discuss Marguerite...

Meet Julia Deck!

You’re 42. Your husband just left you. And yesterday, you killed your psychoanalyst.

Photographer’s Paradise: Turbulent America 1960-1990

An evening with photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont who traveled to all fifty states to document a broad swath of the...

Everything Is Cinema

Join us for a conversation between film critic Antoine de Baecque and New Yorker film editor Richard Brody, internationally...

About Time, Vahram Muratyan in Conversation with Timothée Verrecchia

Acclaimed author of Paris versus New York, Vahram Muratyan will join us at Albertine to discuss his new book – the visual...

Sandra Smith and the Art of Translation

Famous for her remarkable English renditions of the works of Albert Camus and Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith joins us to...

Albertine retrouvée

Join us for a Proustian evening in the delightful company of Antoine Compagnon, professor at the College de France and...

The Immortality of Mortals

Looking at the growing power that health and beauty standards have over our lives, Pascal Bruckner turns the classical...

Yannick Grannec in Conversation with John W. Dawson

Albert Einstein liked to say that the only reason he went to his office was for the pleasure of Kurt Gödel’s company as they...

An Evening with Maylis de Kerangal

Celebrated French author Maylis de Kerangal is coming to Albertine for a discussion about the exciting interplay between body,...