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

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…

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?

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…

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…

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?

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);…

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.