De Humanisten, the Dutch edition of Humanly Possible is now available! And there will be some events in the Netherlands to celebrate this in October: a lecture for the Humanistisch Verbond in Arnhem on the 28th, and a discussion at Amsterdam’s Brainwash Festival on 29th. Do come along if you are in those parts of the world!
I’m delighted to say that the German translation of Humanly Possible is now out – joining the Italian translation, which appeared some months ago. Wie man Mensch wird is available from C.H. Beck, and Umanamente possibile from Rizzoli. The Dutch translation is coming soon too, followed by more.
I’ll be talking about Humanly Possible at various locations in the UK in April 2023. Here are the dates and venues:
Oxford Festival, Oxford. Sunday 2 April, 12.00. Details and booking here.
Daunts Bookshop, Marylebone High Street, London. Tuesday 18 April, 19.00. Details and booking here.
Toppings Bookshop, Edinburgh. Thursday 20 April, 19.30. Details and booking here.
Festival of Ideas, Waterstones, Bristol. Tuesday 25 April, 19.00. Details and booking here.
Toppings Bookshop, Bath. Wednesday 26 April, 19.30. Details and booking here.
Tonight! Apologies for the short notice in posting this. I’m giving the Rosalind Franklin Lecture tonight in London, at Conway Hall, starting at 7.30 PM. Tickets available here – to attend in person, or to watch online. Hope to see you there!
A new book is coming soon – Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope.
It will be published on or around 28 March 2023, by Chatto & Windus in the UK, Penguin in the US, and Knopf in Canada. Read a little more about it here!
The Serbian translation of At the Existentialist Cafe has just come through, with a charming cover illustration. It’s by Sara Bejkvel, and features Žan-Pol Sartr, Simona de Bovoar, Alber Kami, Martin Hajdeger, and Moris Merlo-Ponti.
More translations of the existentialists have come through – V kavarni eksistencialistov, in Slovenian, and Egzistencialistų kavinėje, in Lithuanian. Lovely cover!
The Korean edition of the Existentialist Cafe is now out from Theory and Praxis Publishing Co., and check out this brilliant cover. Among the cocktail’s ingredients are Godzilla, Charlie Chaplin, and Keanu Reeves – and yes they’re all in the book. (I have no link for it yet, but will update if/when I get more information.)
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