On February 16, Swedish author Karin Tidbeck (of Amatka and Jagannath) joins us for a book talk on The Memory Theater, available beginning today from Pantheon Books. With moderator Sara Lefkowitz, she’ll discuss her new novel, a fantastical tour de force about friendship, interdimensional theater, and a magical place where no one ages — except the young.
From the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2019, stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love, melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.
On February 9, we’ll be discussing the book The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimäki, who joined us last month for a book talk on the novel with moderator Heli Sirviö, available to stream here. Bored with her life and feeling stuck in her mid-40s, Mia Kankimäki decided to leave her job, sell her apartment, and travel the world to follow…
Join us as a panel of experts discuss Emile Chabal's new short introduction to postwar France. The book explores the contradictions that have shaped French history over the last eighty years, from the calamitous defeat by Hitler's armies in 1940 through decolonisation, the gilets jaunes and the response to COVID-19. Structured around the idea of paradox, Chabal paints a picture…
Join us in discussing Gráinne de Búrca’s upcoming book, Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era. In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights.
This event will be in English and Spanish. Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live The book we are celebrating, Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present: Structures of Feeling, brings together in one place 24 essays published over Jo Labanyi’s career, which she was invited to contribute to the “Selected Essays” series of Legenda, the imprint of the British Modern Humanities Research…
Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York, originally published in 1995, traces that event as it gripped New York City. The cast is drawn from every strata: a likable and laconic Irish American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious biracial actress and her white minstrel lover as…
In the fourth program of the series, Bernice Lerner, author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (Johns Hopkins, 2020) and Susan Jacobowitz, author of the manuscript Far from Childhood: A Holocaust Memoir, discuss with Natalia Aleksiun their parents' interrupted childhoods during the Holocaust in the Carpathian Mountains. The authors will reflect on their work uncovering the life trajectories…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between writer and translator Susan Bernofsky and poet and writer Eileen Myles about Bernofsky's “Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser,“ the first English-language biography of Swiss author Robert Walser. In their conversation, Myles and Bernofsky will reflect on Walser's intriguing work and life, problems of…
For this Black, Brown and Green Voices event, Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey will be in conversation with Dr. Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham about her new book Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers, which offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers.
