Book discussion followed by wine reception. Giorgio Van Straten, Alessandro Cassin, Alexander Stille and Fraser Ottanelli. Exile and Creativity, published by CPL Editions, is a collection of essays from a program series held in 2017-18 by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York jointly with Centro Primo Levi. The essays examine the lives of Italian man and women who were…
Join for a book launch of The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (PublicAffairs, October 2019) with authors Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country–be it antagonistic or far too chummy.…
Centro Primo Levi Readings Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. The Heart of a Stranger An Anthology of Exile Literature (2020, Pushkin Press) Edited by André Naffis-Sahely The editor in conversation with: Jenny Xie (NYU, Graywolf poet) Aaron Robertson (Lit Hub Editor and translator of Ethiopian memoirist Martha Nasibù) Jonathan Galassi (poet and translator, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Heart of a Stranger charts…