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Rachel Kushner on French Influence | Albertine Prize 2020

France and French literature have played an important role in bestselling author and Albertine Prize 2020 co-chair Rachel...

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Rachel Kushner on the Art of Translation | Albertine Prize 2020

According to bestselling author and Albertine Prize 2020 co-chair Rachel Kushner, translation is both a collaborative and...

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Rachel Kushner on Translated Literature | Albertine Prize 2020

“Literature is really the only art form that offers you the chance to experience what it’s like to be inside someone else’s...

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Three Rings | Virtual Event

Best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn and French novelist Édouard Louis discuss Mendelsohn’s latest book,...

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Les Inséparables | Virtual Event

Professor and publisher Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and author and New Yorker staff writer Judith Thurman discuss Les...

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Podcast | Festival Albertine: The Climate Moment

We need to understand the particular gravity of this moment in time. What does it feel like to live amid both despair and...

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Festival Albertine: How Do We Get People to Care?

Artists and activists will be called upon to discuss how to change people’s minds and amplify the call to action. With Irina...

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Festival Albertine: Environmental Justice

Climate change is hitting some harder than others. What politics, policies, and new economies might hasten progress? With...

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Festival Albertine: What We Eat, and How We Grow It, May Need to Change

From France’s attempt to increase carbon in the soil to great chefs working to make their menus responsible, how can this...

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Festival Albertine: Local Government & Policymaking

As national governments fail to move at the necessary speed, cities are trying to fill the gap. Can local governments and...