On April 19, join Lola Lafon and Christopher Sorrentino as they discuss Identity, Transformation, and Freedom based on their respective novels : Lafon’s The Little Communist Who Never Smiled (2016) and Mercy Mary Patty (2017), and Sorrentino’s Trance (2005), and The Fugitives (2017).

Join Leila Slimani and Mona Eltahawy as they discuss their work, the importance of feminism today, and their choice to talk openly about sexuality in conservative cultures.

Join Négar Djavadi and Roja Heydarpour as they  discuss Djavadi’s debut novel, Disoriental, which won several prestigious literary awards in France, on the occasion of the its publication in the US with Europa Editions.

Join poet Tracie Morris and writer and professor Vincent Broqua, as they read from and discuss Morris’s most recent poetry collection, Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, just published in France by joca seria. The reading will be in English and in French.

Join Carrie Landfried and Olivier Wagner, co-editors of “Lettres d’Amérique”, as they discuss the author, the journey, and this never-before-published correspondence.

Join Lebanese author Charif Majdalani as he discusses ‘Moving The Palace’, his latest novel published in the US, with writer and literary critic Nathaniel Popkin.

Mitch Abidor and Todd Gitlin will delve into the oral testimonies of those young rebels collected by Abidor in his new book May Made Me (Verso). Our speakers will discuss the legacy of the uprising, and how those explosive experiences have changed both the individual and history.

Prominent French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) brought a seminal force to modern music of the 20th century. To celebrate his work, masterpieces and influence on major composers, painters and writers, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French-American Piano Society present a series of events from May 8-10, 2018.

Acclaimed design historian and author Emily Evans Eerdmans, founder of Eerdmans Fine Art, will discuss her latest book ‘Henri Samuel: Master of French Interior’—the first work dedicated to the most preeminent French interior designer of the twentieth century.

On May 13th, join children’s book author Richard Normandon for a reading of his latest book, Les enquêtes d’Hermès 2 – L’affaire Méduse, the adventures of the young god detective.

Join award-winning American poet Henri Cole and New York Time Magazine editor Sasha Weiss as they discuss Cole’s elegiac memoir.