Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002, 276 pp) - (2,9/5) ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ IFA Tuesday Book Club Book - Review by Virginia Manhard Lubin The Tuesday book club was a bit hard on this first novel…
Mao II by Don DeLillo (1991, 241 pp) - (3,6/5) ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ IFA Tuesday Book Club Book Review by Virginia Manhard Lubin Don Delillo describes the novel as a tool we can use "to think about and…
East, West by S. Rushdie (1994, 171 pp – Short Stories) - (4,8/5) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ IFA Tuesday Book Club - A Book Review by Virginia Manhard Lubin No wonder Salman Rushdie has been recognized throughout the world…
The Grapes Of Alsace After three red tastings we're going back to some great whites...this time from Alsace!Riesling, Pinot gris and Gewurztraminer, the great grapes from Alsace, come very dry to very sweet. We'll compare these grapes made in Alsace…
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (3,6/5) (2015, 278 pp) Go Set a Watchman was rejected by Harper Lee's editors in 1957, before she used it as the springboard for her internationally renowned To Kill a Mockingbird. Contemporary American…
To start off the new year, Brian Monks has a very special tasting, a vertical tasting of red Burgundy. Domaine Rossignol-Trapet, of Gevrey-chambertin, has furnished us with bottles of 5 recent vintages [masked]) of their Gevrey-Chambertin veilles vignes. This tasting…
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (3,4/5) (2016, 257 pp) This is a young man's memoire of growing up in his tribal hillbilly community between the mountains of Kentucky and the declining de-industrialized town of Middleton, Ohio. It is an unforgiving…
We are currently looking for a club leader to host our Teen club and our High School Club on Wednesday afternoons! If you are interested in intercultural exchange and would like to become involved as one of IFA’s team of…
L'Institut franco-américain a ouvert un club de dégustation de vins en anglais. Déliez votre langue et vos papilles dans le Grand salon du 7 quai Chateaubriand, pour une séance de dégustation en anglais avec Brian, animateur connaisseur américain et également…
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (4,7/5) (1997, 423 pp) Our book club was unanimous in its praise for American Pastoral as an incisive portrait of the collision of the idyllic American dream of the 1950's with the disarray and chaos…