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Announcing the Winners of the 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…

Albertine Book Club's Winter/Spring 2025 Calendar

This winter, we’re looking forward to a series of engaging conversations on Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga (Jordan Stump, Archipelago Books); The Propagandist by Cecile Desprairies (Natasha Lehrer, New Vessel Press); Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (John Sturrock,…

A Note

Updated Store Hours

Albertine's operating hours are now Thursday to Tuesday from 10am – 6pm. The bookstore will be closed on Wednesdays.

5 Fiction in Translation To Read This Spring

This spring, four remarkable novels in translation —Accords Suspendus by Helen Garner, L'Inventaire des rêves by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, L'Age fragile by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, and Perle by Sian Hughes — have become available to Francophone readers. They ntricately explore the…

4 New Novels Haunted by Silence and Secret

The four novels, all translated from the French with great care, in this list—grapple with silence. They ask: what do we carry forward when the world has shifted beneath our feet? What remains when memory falters, when language fails?

On Love, Care, and the Radical Act of Listening

The books gathered in this reading list do not shout—but they are anything but quiet. They engage with the subtle and seismic forces that shape our relationships, our politics, and our inner lives. Each, in its own way, asks us…

Books To Entertain Dad This Father's Day!

This year, give a book that lingers, questions, and resonates. Happy Father’s Day!

4 Books Translated from The French To Celebrate Pride Month

Pride is many things: celebration, remembrance, rebellion, joy. It’s also a story—of becoming, of shedding masks, of daring to speak in one’s own voice. This month, we honor Francophone queer voices that challenge conventions, rewrite the rules of literature, and…

Seven Literary Journeys Through Memory, Myth, and Meaning

This summer, why not slip into the role of a literary detective and immerse yourself in lives remembered and lives reimagined—among literary ghosts, vanished women, and obsessive questions that refuse to be silenced?

Book Club

Albertine Book Club Fall 2025 Calendar

This fall, we’re looking forward to a series of engaging conversations on I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Ros Schwartz, Transit Books); Nadja by André Breton (Mark Polizzotti, NYRB); Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro (Eve Hill-Agnus, Deep Vellum);…

We're Hiring a Bookseller

Institut Français des Etats-Unis – Villa Albertine New York is hiring a bookseller (specialized assistant) at Albertine Books. This will be a full-time job starting September 1st, 2025.

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