(Hybrid) Recovery and Renewal with Octavia Bright
The American Library in ParisOctavia Bright joins us at the Library to discuss reckoning and recovery in new memoir This Ragged Grace.
Octavia Bright joins us at the Library to discuss reckoning and recovery in new memoir This Ragged Grace.
Join us at a Library Members-only event to make new connections over a concert with orchestral musician, Dan Flanagan.
Go behind-the-scenes of original opera Archipel(s), premiering at the Opéra Comique on 25 April.
In a conversation and workshop, rediscover the wonder, simplicity, and creative power of play.
Join us for a panel discussion in partnership with The Overseas Press Club on the US presidential race.
The Library welcomes Pulitzer-Prize winning writer and translator Benjamin Moser for a conversation about his latest book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters.
In the presence of NASA experts, explore space exploration: Artemis III, lunar science, and bridging the scientific knowledge gap.
Lou Stoppard, curator of “Exteriors—Annie Ernaux & Photography,” speaks with Lauren Collins about writing and seeing.
Prolific novelist and journalist Nick McDonell joins us at the Library for a conversation about his new memoir, Quiet Street.
Professional Philosophers Scott Hershovitz and Sarah Bakewell explore the big questions of life: the nature of goodness, the possibility of ethical living, and the meaning of being human.
Writer-in-Residence Stacy Schiff joins us at the Library for a conversation about biographical writing.
Ahead of the upcoming Jeux Olympiques in Paris this summer, climate advocate and sports researcher Madeleine Orr joins us to discuss the effects of climate change on the sporting world.
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