Nächste Veranstaltungen bei Curious Fox

The book club meets usually on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 7.30pm. For more info and the full calendar of forthcoming dates and books please see the bookclub page.

Join us for a reading & discussion with Samantha Rose Hill, translator & editor of "What Remains: the Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt" (Liveright). Samantha will be in conversation with writer & critic Ryan Ruby.

“These poems construct a most personal, subtle and affecting autobiography. They are intense, emotional and yet do not yield to our voyeuristic nature.” — Percival Everett

What Remains collects Hannah Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre into a single edition. These works have never been published in English, offering a never-before-seen glimpse into the inner sanctum of a thinker whose writings on totalitarianism have served as an urgent warning for the West over the past decade.

While Arendt often acknowledged that the works of Dickinson, Goethe, and Lowell informed her writing, relatively few people know that she was a poet herself. Between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them autobiographical in nature, marking moments of joy, love, loss, and remembrance.

In a single stunning volume, Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill present these intensely personal poems in chronological order, from the zenith of the Weimar Republic to the Cold War, and from Marburg, Germany, to New York’s Upper West Side.

Join us for a reading & discussion with Vijay Khurana to launch his debut novel "The Passenger Seat" (Peninsula Press). Vijay will be in conversation with writer & critic Alexander Wells.

About the book
Seeking release from their small-town existence, two teenagers drive north on a vaguely plotted road trip.
Adam and Teddy hope to leave boyhood behind. But they carry with them all the upsets and resentments they have accrued in their unhappy lives to date. As the pair’s journey progresses, the mood fluctuates as each of them sets out to prove himself. Soon the dynamics of their friendship begin to unravel, culminating in an act of devastating – and all too familiar – violence.
In taut and stylish prose, The Passenger Seat examines how men learn and perform masculinity. Rejecting easy answers, it keeps our eyes trained on the vanishing point where vulnerability edges into violence, alienation into aggression.

‘This perfectly pitched tale of masculinity gone wrong exposes the ways that intimacy can so quickly veer into violence – yet it evades easy moral pronouncements at every turn. Khurana is a brilliant stylist who drives straight toward the heart.’ Elvia Wilk

Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. His work has appeared in NOON, The Guardian, 3:AM Magazine and the White Review Writing in Translation Anthology, among others. He is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Queen Mary, University of London. His first novel, The Passenger Seat, was shortlisted for the 2022 Novel Prize. He lives between Berlin and London.

Doors open at 19:30. The event will start at 20:00.
Free entry.

Please note the venue is not accessible as there are nine steps down into a souterrain.