Book Review
Born in 1973, Tanguy Viel has written a dozen books and short story collections. In The Girl You Call, his second novel to be […]
Author: Sophie Joubert
Book Review
A 15-year-old girl accuses a man of rape then withdraws her testimony five years later. Pascale Robert-Diard, a journalist and legal correspondent for French […]
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Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt and the Albertine Prize for And Their Children After Them, the Lorraine-born writer has been influenced by American […]
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Journalist and literary critic Adam Shatz is the American editor of The London Review of Books and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, […]
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In his latest book, the author of Compass, winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, depicts a Parisian ethnologist’s exploration of the Marais Poitevin region. […]
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Ethnologist and professor emeritus at the Université Paris Diderot, Pascal Dibie traveled frequently to the United States between 1980 and 1990. While there, he […]
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Following on from At Night All Blood Is Black, his first novel about the African Tirailleurs during World War I, the French writer explores […]
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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 […]
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In writing The Most Secret Memory of Men, winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr drew inspiration from the story of the […]
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In this short, striking book just released in the United States, Annie Ernaux recounts her relationship with a student 30 years her junior in […]
