Book Review

David Diop: A Naturalist Searching for Eurydice

Following on from At Night All Blood Is Black, his first novel about the African Tirailleurs during World War I, the French writer explores […]

By Sophie Joubert
| November 29, 2023

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Joseph Kessel in America: Journeys Through the Abyss

From 1933 to 1960, the French novelist and journalist (1898-1979), who wrote Army of Shadows, The Lion and The Horsemen, produced five series of […]

By Sophie Joubert
| October 31, 2023

Book Review

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: In Memory of Yambo Ouologuem

In writing The Most Secret Memory of Men, winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr drew inspiration from the story of the […]

By Sophie Joubert
| October 10, 2023

Book Review

The Young Man, a Book within Another

In this short, striking book just released in the United States, Annie Ernaux recounts her relationship with a student 30 years her junior in […]

By Sophie Joubert
| September 29, 2023

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Anne Serre, Writing as a Game of Cards

Coinciding with the publication of Anne Serre’s fourth novel translated in the United States, A Leopard-Skin Hat, her first book, The Governesses, is being […]

By Sophie Joubert
| September 6, 2023

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Jean Genet, a French Writer Standing with the Black Panthers

Fifty-five years ago, Jean Genet arrived in Chicago to cover the Democratic National Convention. In 1968 and again in 1970, the former thief and […]

By Sophie Joubert
| August 23, 2023

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Françoise Sagan: A Literary Escape to Key West

In April 1955, the French author of Bonjour Tristesse put her American tour on hold to spend two weeks in Tennessee Williams’ vacation home […]

By Sophie Joubert
| August 16, 2023

Book Review

Anne Berest: A Non-Fiction Novel for an Incomplete Memory

Novelist and screenwriter Anne Berest co-authored Gabriële with her sister Claire, telling the story of their great-grandmother, the wife of painter Francis Picabia and […]