Books

Sylvain Pattieu: “France Does Have a Racial History”

French historian and novelist Sylvain Pattieu has just published Panthères et pirates : Des Afro-Américains entre lutte des classes et Black Power, a book […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 8 September 2022

Books

Miguel Bonnefoy: The Winemaker’s Son, the Pilot, and the Revolutionary

Born in France to a Venezuelan diplomat mother and a Chilean father, Miguel Bonnefoy has built a literary oeuvre combining stories and adventure novels. […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 25 August 2022

Books

Estelle-Sarah Bulle: Guadeloupe in Four Voices

Born in the Paris suburbs to a Guadeloupean father and a Franco-Belgian mother, the author looks back over 60 years of a family’s history […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 27 July 2022

Books

Camille Laurens: A Woman’s Life

In Girl, recently published in the United States, the novelist and Prix Goncourt jury member portrays a woman’s life from the 1960s to the […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 29 June 2022

Books

Joy Sorman: Skin Deep

Ninon Moise, 17, is the youngest descendent of a line of women struck by strange diseases. After contracting an illness that makes her skin […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 24 May 2022

Books

Camille Kouchner: Facing Down the Hydra

A shocking account by lawyer Camille Kouchner, The Familia Grande was published in France in January 2021. In her book, she describes her childhood […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 11 May 2022

Portrait

Laure Murat, a French-American Perspective

Laure Murat is a historian and a professor of literature at UCLA. She has been living in Los Angeles for 16 years and focuses […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 27 April 2022

Books

Agnès Riva: Love, an Overview

In her first novel, Agnès Riva tells the story of an adulterous relationship through the banal, impersonal places where the two lovers meet. A […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 7 April 2022

Books

Lola Lafon: A Girl in Little Pieces

In 1984, a fake foundation abused teenage girls while dangling the prospect of careers as dancers. In Reeling, recently published in the United Sates, […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 30 March 2022

Portrait

From Minnesota to Algeria, in the Footsteps of Camus

Alice Kaplan is a historian and professor of literature at Yale. She specializes in Camus and French collaboration with the Nazis during World War […]