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SUMMARY:Letters Home with Fall 2026 Cultural Fellow Leïla Slimani
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Dab268ee7-369d-423d-be81-2331e41a5cf0%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F84115795175|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This event is part of Letters Home\, our series of curated programs celebrating the many ways we imagine\, remember\, and return to home from afar.\nLearn more → \nBestselling French-Moroccan novelist and the American Library’s Fall 2026 Cultural Fellow\, Leïla Slimani inaugurates the Library’s Letters Home programming theme with a conversation on writing\, memory\, identity\, and the intersections of family and colonial history. \nIn her latest novel\, I’ll Take the Fire\, the concluding volume of her family trilogy\, Slimani follows a young Moroccan woman forging a life between Casablanca\, Paris\, and London as she grapples with freedom\, inheritance\, and belonging. \nModerated by the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs\, Rachel Donadio\, the conversation explores the stories we inherit\, the places we call home\, and the ways personal histories are shaped by larger political and colonial legacies. \nAbout the speaker: \nLeïla Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny (Chanson Douce)\, one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2018\, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Prix Goncourt. Her other books include Adèle\, Sex and Lies\, Country of Others and Watch Us Dance\, which are the first and second parts of a trilogy of novels based on her family’s roots in revolutionary Morocco. Slimani is French president Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. She has received numerous honors for her literary and cultural contributions\, including the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom\, and was the chair of the jury for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Born in Rabat\, Morocco\, in 1981\, she divides her time between France and Portugal.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/slimani26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,Letters Home
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260923T193000
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming the American Story with Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3D20543a56-bbea-40da-aff3-5e47052525cf%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F86440371781|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]In Wandering Stars\, Tommy Orange traces one Native American family’s story from the Sand Creek Massacre through generations of survival\, exploring inherited trauma\, institutional violence\, and the resilience of Indigenous communities.  \nModerated by writer Daniel Levin Becker\, the discussion examines the relationship between history and fiction\, the power of polyphonic storytelling\, afterlives of ritual objects in European museums\, and how literature can reclaim stories long erased from the American narrative. \nThis event is in partnership with Festival America. \nAbout the speakers: \nTommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There\, a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year\, and won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Pen/Hemingway Award. There There was also longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent novel\, Wandering Stars\, was published in February 2024. Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nDaniel Levin Becker is the author of Many Subtle Channels and What’s Good. His translations from the French include books by\, among others\, Georges Perec\, Laurent Mauvignier\, Jakuta Alikavazovic\, and Éric Chevillard. He is co-founder of the small press Fern Books and the only living American member of the Oulipo.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/orange26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260929T193000
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SUMMARY:How The World Views Trump’s America with Nataliya Gumenyuk and Madeleine Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Daa764137-f75f-4ecf-902e-39a905bf0fb0%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]How do those outside the United States understand America’s politics\, global influence\, and changing place in the world?  \nJoin award-winning Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk– the only Ukrainian reporter to have covered every U.S. presidential election since 2008– for a conversation on America’s image abroad\, the war in Ukraine\, and how American foreign policy shapes conflicts far beyond its borders. Together with Madeleine Schwartz\, editor-in-chief of The Dial and co-editor of How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump\, they will explore how journalists around the world are reporting on an era defined by shifting alliances\, drone warfare\, and competing visions of America’s global role. \nAbout the speakers: \nNataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and author specializing in foreign affairs and conflict reporting. She is the co-founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab\, which fosters constructive discussion around complex social issues. After Russia’s full-scale invasion\, the organization co-founded The Reckoning Project to document war crimes. As a foreign correspondent\, Gumenyuk has reported from more than 50 countries and regularly contributes to Foreign Affairs\, the Guardian\, and the Atlantic\, etc. She is the author of several documentaries and books\, including The Lost Island\, The Maidan Tahrir\, and The Scariest Days of My Life. Gumenyuk also co-founded and headed Hromadske TV\, an independent Ukrainian broadcaster.   \nMadeleine Schwartz is editor in chief of The Dial\, the award-winning magazine of international writing and editor\, with the staff of The Dial\, of How We See It: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump. She lives in Paris\, where she writes about the rise of the far right\, urban politics and art fraud. Her work appears in the London Review of Books\, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books\, where she previously worked as an editor. She teaches journalism at Sciences Po.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dial26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260930T193000
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SUMMARY:Lessons from Istanbul with Suzy Hansen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”RSVP Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhost.nxt.blackbaud.com%2Fregistration-form%2F%3FformId%3Da6e4fa55-3a62-4641-a8d2-97c438a092c5%26envId%3Dp-Dm_SN_kaVE6HLULDUnPr0g%26zone%3Deur|target:_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Zoom Link” style=”custom” custom_background=”#9e0143″ custom_text=”#ffffff” size=”lg” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F85059403788|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This event is part of Letters Home\, our series of curated programs celebrating the many ways we imagine\, remember\, and return to home from afar. Learn more → \nHow does a country gradually slide toward autocracy? Drawing on more than a decade of reporting from a single neighborhood in Istanbul\, journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Suzy Hansen explores the rise of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from reform-minded technocrat to authoritarian leader in her new book\, From Life Itself. Through the lives of Turks\, Kurds\, and Syrian refugees living side by side\, Hansen traces the local realities behind sweeping political change\, asking what Turkey’s recent history reveals about the resurgence of authoritarianism—and what it can teach us about democracies around the world today. \nAbout the speaker: \nSuzy Hansen lived in Istanbul for more than a decade\, where she was a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and many other publications. Her first book\, Notes on a Foreign Country\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award. Her second book\, From Life Itself: Turkey\, Istanbul and Neighborhood in the Age of Erdogan\, was  published in April 2026. She has taught writing at Princeton University\, New York University\, and Bard College.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (the speakers will appear in the Reading Room)\, the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. \nAttendance at this event constitutes permission for your photograph or video to be taken at the event and used by the American Library in Paris for marketing\, promotional\, pedagogical\, or other purposes.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758032823591{border-left-width: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-color: #9e0143 !important;}”] \nEvenings with an Author are free and open to the public (with a 10€ suggested donation)\nthanks to the generous support of GRoW @ Annenberg.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/hansen26/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults,Evenings with an Author,Letters Home
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