On November 16, join us for a virtual book talk on the new fiction anthology The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction, out November 11 from Comma Press! Authors Kristín Eiríksdóttir & Björn Halldórsson and translator Larissa Kyzer will discuss the novel and its translation, as well as the themes explored in the book, with moderator Halla Þórlaug Óskarsdóttir. Iceland is a land of…
From the earliest efforts by survivors themselves to document the destruction of European Jews to the enormous international and interdisciplinary literature being produced today, the historiography of the Holocaust has both followed the course of history as a discipline through numerous turns – cultural, narrative, forensic, spatial, etc... – and opened up new methodological paths of its own. As LBI's…
**This event will take place in French** L'auteur Mohamed Mbougar Sarr parlera de son roman La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, qui suit l'histoire d'un jeune auteur sénégalais dans le Paris contemporain, enquêtant sur la toile de fond d'un livre mythique et mystérieux « Le labyrinthe de l'inhumain ». Le livre de M. Sarr est lauréat du prestigieux Prix littéraire…