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The Albertine Book Club Fall 2024 Calendar

This fall, we'll celebrate Albertine 10th anniversary. And we’re looking forward to a series of engaging conversations on "The Lily of The Valley" by Honoré de Balzac; "Jellyfish Have no Ears" by Adèle Rosenfeld; "Command Performance" by Jean Echenoz and…

Prix Albertine Jeunesse 2025

The Prix Albertine Jeunesse is a reader’s choice award based on the vote of young readers aged 3 to 11 years old, who cast their votes for their favorite book from a collection of Francophone youth literature available in English…

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Describing Language and Telling Stories: Adèle Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Zuckerman &…

On Monday, September 30 at 6pm, join Adèle Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Zuckerman and Hilary Leichter as they discuss Rosenfeld's debut novel, "Jellyfish Have no Ears" (Graywolf Press, trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman). In English. ASL interpretation will be provided by SignNexus. Free…

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The Son of Man, An Afternoon with Jean-Baptiste Del Amo…

On Saturday, September 28 at 3pm, join Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and Brandon Taylor as they discuss Del Amo's "The Son of Man", an exceptional novel of nature and wildness. In English. Free with RSVP.

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Claude Cahun: Surrealist Writer and Pioneering Queer Theorist

On Thursday, October 17 at 6pm, join literary scholars Hannah Freed-Thall and Juno Jill Richards as they discuss this extraordinary and overlooked project. Excerpts from Cancelled Confessions will be read by NYU PhD students Helen Fishman and Audrey Rogulski. In…

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Paradises Lost: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt in conversation with Michael Reynolds

On Monday, October 28 at 6pm, join Eric Emmanuel Schmitt as he discusses "Paradises Lost," his latest novel (trans. by Steven Rendall and Addie Leak, and just published by Europa), with his US publisher Michael Reynolds. This event is free…

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Seeing Baya, Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris: Alice…

On Saturday October 26, at 3pm, join Alice Kaplan and Harold Augenbraum as they discuss, Kaplan's latest book, "Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris (University of Chicago Press)", the first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated…

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At The Louvre: Book Talk and Poetry Reading

On Wednesday, October 30, at 6pm, join NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank and author and Director of Contemporary Programmes at the Louvre Museum, Donatien Grau as they discuss At the Louvre, a hundred poems by a hundred of the world's…

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