Festival Albertine 2016

Curated by National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the third annual Festival...

FRENCH BOOKS COME TO BROOKLYN

We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Community Bookstore (7 th avenue between Carroll St. and Garfield Pl.) in...

Independence Day

In observance of Independence Day, Albertine will be closed all day on Tuesday, July, 4, 2017. We will reopen for business as...

Memorial Day

Albertine will be closed on Monday, May 29, 2017, in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen for business as usual on...

The Inaugural French Heritage Society Award

To celebrate its 35th Anniversary, the French Heritage Society has launched this year its inaugural Prize.

Albertine Prize Winner Announced!

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural Albertine Prize: ‘Bardo or Not Bardo’, written by Antoine Volodine,...

Adam Hocker Reads Albertine Prize Finalist ‘Naked’

Combining the deadpan dreaminess of Murakami with the brilliant and limpid style of Queneau, Jean-Philippe Toussaint is an odd...

Albertine Prize Finalist: The Heart

‘The Heart’ takes place over the 24 hours surrounding a fatal car crash and the subsequent heart transplant as life is taken...

Alexandra Schwartz Reads Albertine Prize Finalist ‘The Little Communiste Who Never Smiled’

Lola Lafon’s award-winning novel offers a fictionalized account of iconic gymnast Nadia Comaneci’s life, from her rural...

Tom Roberge Reads Albertine Prize Finalist ‘Bardo or Not Bardo’

One of the funniest installments in Antoine Volodine’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic series, ‘Bardo or Not Bardo’ consists of...