From Baldwin to Today: Queer Black Expats in Paris with Rasheed Newson
An interactive lecture on art, exile, and queer Black life in the City of Lights.
An interactive lecture on art, exile, and queer Black life in the City of Lights.
In this hybrid talk and interview with writer and critic Rachel Cohen, learn how writers and artists including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O’Hara and Joan Mitchell borrow from, respond to, and spark each other’s work.
Join us for a reading of our Scholar of Note’s new musical-in-progress inspired by Julia Child’s Paris years, starring professional actors and members of the Library community.
A powerful photographic journey through two decades of American conflict, at home and abroad, with photographer Peter van Agtmael.
A sensory writing workshop inspired by the magic of fresh bread.
In the Library's capstone Ways of Seeing event, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hisham Matar guides us in a sustained act of looking.
Join the 2026 American Library in Paris Gala honoring Amy Tan to celebrate literature and sustain Europe’s largest English-language library.