(Hybrid) Roundtable: Women and Art in Interwar France
The American Library in ParisJoin a special roundtable discussion of female creativity in interwar Paris, with experts on Joesphine Baker, Janet Flanner, Anaïs Nin, and more.
Join a special roundtable discussion of female creativity in interwar Paris, with experts on Joesphine Baker, Janet Flanner, Anaïs Nin, and more.
Who, really, was Shakespeare? Why do so many theories circulate about his identity? What happens when we challenge the widely-accepted image of the Bard?
Joanna Biggs and Lauren Oyler consider why we read who we read, what we owe to the literary past, and how to write for the future.
Artist Cornelius Tulloch and poet Christian Campbell explore diaspora through identity, environment, and artistic expression.
The Library hosts legendary filmmaker Claire Denis for an evening of conversation with Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz.
Join Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz and writer Jake Lamar in mapping out jazz's transatlantic journeys from the 20th century to today.
Visiting Fellow Christian Campbell and Curator Claire Tancons consider the poetics and politics of movement in the Black Diaspora through language, gesture, and migration.
Novelists Ayşegül Savas and Chris Knapp discuss their respective novels, The Anthropologists and State of Emergency.
Ivy Pochoda and Katherine Pancol discuss Pochoda's latest thriller, Sing Her Down, a disastrous game of cat-and-mouse between a prisoner and her former cellmate.
Join filmmaker Lisa Molomot for a discussion of her award-winning documentary Missing in Brooks County, about migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Is populism on the rise or in retreat in the U.S. and Europe?
Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discusses her forthcoming book On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe.
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