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VIRTUAL EVENT. Burning Books: Akram Aylisli, Literature, and Human Rights in Today’s Azerbaijan

Register here for the Zoom webinar or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Harriman Institute and PEN America for a discussion with Akram Aylisli, author of Farewell Aylis: A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works (Academic Studies Press, 2018), translator Katherine E. Young, and journalist Alex Raufoglu. Moderated by Professor Mark Lipovetsky. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series. The three novellas…

Ode to the Hybrid: Writing as a Russian-American

Olga Livshin is an English-language poet of Jewish descent, via Russia and Ukraine. The Los Angeles Review of Books described her 2019 book as follows: “In her inventive collection of ‘poems with translations,’ A Life Replaced, … Livshin writes in conversation with Akhmatova, using the older poet’s grief as a guide to navigate the depressing present.” In conversation with Eliot Borenstein, Livshin will discuss…

On Les Inséparables, Simone de Beauvoir’s Unpublished Novel

Join professor and publisher Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir along with author and New Yorker  staff writer Judith Thurman and as they discuss Les Inséparables, a novel by Simone de Beauvoir written in 1954 and released for the first time this fall. In her memoir Force of Circumstance, de Beauvoir mentioned that she gave the manuscript of Les Inséparables to…

Faroese Authors You Should Know

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Scandinavia House continues its series, Nordic Authors You Should Know--this time with a focus on literature from the Faroe Islands. Join this lecture and discussion featuring Rakel Helmsdal, Carl Johan Jensen, and Marjun Syberdo Kjaelnes. The event will begin with short readings of each of the author's work in both the original language and in English, followed by interviews with the authors and…

Three Rings: An Evening with Daniel Mendelsohn

Join best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn as he presents his latest book Three Rings, just published by University of Virginia Press, over Zoom. Combining memoir, biography, fiction, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the very…

VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Talk. Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation by Thomas Kent

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Professor Thomas Kent, author of Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation (Brookings Institution Press, September 29, 2020). Discussant: Rand Waltzman, Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Senior Information Scientist, RAND Corporation. Chair: Elise Giuliano, Lecturer and Director…

L’Atelier des Enfants: Create Your Own Halloween Monster with Laurent Sanguinetti!

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Join us as we get ready for Halloween with author and illustrator Laurent Sanguinetti who will read from Himboo-Humboo, his latest book just published by Le Seuil Jeunesse. The reading will be followed by an interactive collective workshop led by Laurent Sanguinetti on Zoom. Children will be invited to create their own special monster, chat with Laurent Sanguinetti, and share their…

Sami Authors You Should Know

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Nordic Authors You Should Know at Scandinavia House continues with a focus on Sami literature with Johanna Domokos and Saami poet, musician, and scriptwriter Niillas Holmberg. Moderated by Harald Gaski. The panelists will discuss Sami literature and culture today. Please send audience questions ahead of the discussion to info@amscan.org.

Online Nordic Book Club Presents: Palm Beach Finland by Antti Tuomainen

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Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the month at Scandinavia House but will now be taking place bi-weekly as an online meeting.

John Connolly “The Dirty South: A Thriller”

Nov, 4th, 1.00pm EST/6.00pm GMT John, the New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones (Hodder /Stoughton) goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker’s astonishing career in his brand new novel The Dirty South: A Thriller (Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books). John will be in conversation with NYU’s Dr. John Waters. This event will run for…