Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 7 p.m.

In his wildly ambitious and darkly funny debut nove, Jonathan Garfinkel probes the fractured nature of identity, the necessity of lies, and the bloody legacy of the Soviet Empire.  

Thursday, February 01, 2024, 7 p.m.

Foer analyzes the triumphs and failures of Biden’s leadership from the 2022 “midterm miracle” to the power of the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the American response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This lecture is based on Foer's new book The Last Politician.

Thursday, May 16, 2024, 7 p.m. (CET)

Daniel Ziblatt will explain why and how political parties turn against democracy and how this change in politics causes the American society to move, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy. 

Steve McCurry, the renowned American Magnum photographer, presents his book Devotion. for which he visited various parts of the world to capture the spiritual side of humanity in photographs. 

Part detective story, part family history, part exploration of how best to deal with and remember the horrors of the Holocaust.

The American Queen of Thrillers presented the latest volume of her Rizzoli & Isles series.

The bestselling writer's new novel is a simultaneously suspenseful and touching story about love in a world consumed by fear. 

In his debut novel about post-Civil War Georgia, the aspiring writer created distinguishable characters. 

The Canadian's autobiographical graphic novel was the first comic ever to be listed as one of Barack Obama's favorite books.

In his non-ficiton book, the American journalist looks back on the recent history of the United States and describes the contemporary condition of American democracy.
 

This event placed a spotlight on the work of the peruvian writer Óscar Colchado Lucio (Peru, 1947-2023). He is one of the most significant writers of Peru's neoindigenism. 

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The Amerikahaus Literary Circle is a grassroots, English-language book club that meets monthly at the Amerikahaus to discuss works of American literature. You can drop by regularly or just to try one session.

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