Gone Missing: A Conversation with Léonora Miano, Hisham Matar and Sam Sacks

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

On Tuesday, September 18 at 6:30pm, join Cameroonian author Léonora Miano, Libyan writer Hisham Matar and Wall Street Journal literary critic Sam Sacks as they discuss the challenges of writing about those who have gone missing, based on their respective books, Season of Shadow (winner of the 2013 Femina Prize, Seagull Books), and The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in between (winner of the 2017…

La gita a Tindari

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place…

A Foreign Policy Forecast for the Balkan Peninsula in the Age of Presidents Vladimir V. Putin & Donald J. Trump

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

Please join us for a talk with Rudina Hajdari, a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. Rudina Hajdari is a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. She is also a member of the Foreign Policy Committee and the European Integration Committee. Her primary policy interest(s) surround human rights. Ms. Hajdari is a part-time lecturer at the…

GERMAN BOOK CLUB READS THOMAS MELLE

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

At the September German Book Club meeting we will discuss Thomas Melle's Die Welt im Rücken (Rowohlt, 2016, €9,99 ISBN: 978-3499272943). “If you’re bipolar, your life has no continuity anymore. The illness has wrecked your past, and it looms over your future even more threateningly. The life you knew is made more impossible with every manic episode. The person you think you…

The Blockbuster-Maker: Andrew Bolton in conversation with Grazia d’Annunzio

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in conversation with Grazia d'Annunzio, special projects editor, Italian Vogue. The mastermind behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s successful Costume Institute exhibitions such as Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, China: Through the Looking Glass, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, and many others, is a quintessential English scholar named Andrew Bolton, who happily transplanted in…