Nancy K. Miller--memoirist and feminist critic—is author and editor of more than a dozen books, including But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives […]
Author Lisa Greenwald will talk about her new book Daughters of 1968, which recounts the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, a time when […]
Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut […]
Cara Black writes the NYTimes bestselling Aimée Leduc investigation series set in the different arrondissements of Paris. She’s received the Medaille de la Ville de Paris […]
SECRETS OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956 to 1959: It was led by two of […]
Robert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has served on the faculty for thirty years. […]
The Library is pleased to partner with the MIT Club de France to feature a special presentation with Côme Girschig on the first United Nations youth […]
AUTHOR by Beowulf Sheehan © Beowulf Sheehan is considered to be his generation's foremost literary portrait photographer, having made portraits of the literary luminaries of our […]
This panel will feature a conversation about the existential complexities of an international life and a global disposition. Panelists will discuss the narratives of belonging/not belonging, […]
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait […]
George Packer is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a former staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of Our […]
What would Paris be without its souvenirs? Snow globes, keychains, and fridge magnets seem to be everywhere. We often think of souvenirs as worthless junk, but […]
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Wednesday 1 May – Fête du Travail (Labor Day)
Wednesday 8 May – Fête de la Victoire 1945 (WWII Victory Day)
Thursday 9 May – Jeudi de l’Ascension (Ascension)
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