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 […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 24 March 2022

Portrait

“We Are Products of the World That Hunted Witches”

The feminist journalist and writer Mona Chollet became a publishing phenomenon in France with In Defense of Witches, set to arrive in U.S. bookstores […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 2 March 2022

Books

Jacques Schiffrin, a Publisher Between Two Worlds

Founder of the renowned Pléiade collection, which publishes French and international literary classics, Jacques Schiffrin (1892-1950) twice found himself in exile. First in Paris […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 17 February 2022

Books

Louis-Philippe Dalembert: Three Women Facing Fortress Europe

In The Mediterranean Wall, the Haitian writer and Prix Albertine finalist draws on actual events to depict the journey of three female migrants forced […]