Our evenings combine a lecture or reading by the invited guest and a discussion on stage with our specially selected moderator. Add in questions from the audience and we can promise a fascinating and lively discussion! Our events are hosted at various locations in Amsterdam or online. Check each event announcement for more information.
Hanya Yanagihara
| On Paradise
Mar 11, 2022, 8:00 pm -
10:00 pm,
Paradiso, Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam
This year’s most anticipated new novel is without a doubt Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise (published in Dutch as Naar het paradijs by Nieuw Amsterdam).
And we are thrilled that Hanya Yanagihara is returning to the John Adams for a conversation in – where else? – Paradiso, about her three-part story across three centuries, centered around New York City. To Paradise is a revisionist American history - not identical to the America as we know it but a ‘what if’ narrative, invested in raising concerns ...
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And we are thrilled that Hanya Yanagihara is returning to the John Adams for a conversation in – where else? – Paradiso, about her three-part story across three centuries, centered around New York City. To Paradise is a revisionist American history - not identical to the America as we know it but a ‘what if’ narrative, invested in raising concerns ... Read more
George Packer
| Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Apr 25, 2022, 8:00 pm -
10:00 pm,
Location TBA
This event was originally scheduled for November 2021, but was postponed due to Covid. Ticket sales will restart a.s.a.p. Previous sold tickets remain valid.
Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer returns to the John Adams to discuss his latest book Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal.
In this thought-provoking book about the decline and fall of self-government of the United States, Packer accepts that there’s a new reality for America: “a failed state”. A state that is in ...
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In this thought-provoking book about the decline and fall of self-government of the United States, Packer accepts that there’s a new reality for America: “a failed state”. A state that is in ... Read more