During her evening at the Library, Francesca Zambello, acclaimed director and Artistic & General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival, will offer a glimpse into the upcoming […]
Please join us for a night of conversation with four young, Paris-based artists while discussing the new book With Paris in Mind: Talking with Artists […]
Craig was the last person you’d expect to open an American diner in Paris. He’s not a cook nor has he ever owned his own business […]
Please join us for an evening with Rebecca Makkai, who will be speaking with Daniel Levin Becker about her latest critically-acclaimed novel, The Great Believers. Rebecca […]
David Chaffetz read Persian, Turkish and Arabic at Harvard University with Wheeler Thackston, Richard Frye, Anne-Marie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch. He worked for the Encyclopedia […]
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry – and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it by New York Times […]
Elaine Sciolino is again captivating readers, this time with The Seine: The River That Made Paris, the follow-up to her New York Times best-selling book The […]
You may think that you know the National Basketball Association (NBA), but did you know that the world’s elite championship sports a surprisingly zesty French accent? […]
Please join us for a public panel on the "bookstagram" phenomenon. We will be hosting four Paris-based bookstagrammers for the occasion: moderator Anne-Pauline (@apireading) and panelists […]
Please join us for an evening with Dina Nayeri, who will be in conversation with Stuart Reid about her most recent work, The Ungrateful Refugee. […]
More Radioactive than Chernobyl In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States tested sixty-seven nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, including the detonation of the […]
Sufis embody the mystical side of Islam but are also part of well-established institutional networks—the Sufi orders that extend across the Muslim world. Through the words, […]
The Library will be closed on the following days in May:
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)
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
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