Sophie Nauleau, the artistic director of Spring of Poets, resigns. The latest twist in a controversy agitating the literary and media world for a week concerning the organization of the national event which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and which is to be held from March 9 to 25. The Spring of Poets … Read more
There will be sport at the Angoulême Comics Festival! It is in the immense concrete, wood and glass building of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Committee that the largest event dedicated to the 9th art unveiled the program for its 51st edition, which will take place from January 25 to 28. An edition focused, obviously, … Read more
American plan de Seth Greenland Translated from English (United States) by Adélaïde Pralon Editions Liana Levi, 320 p., €22 New York, late 1970s. The city is in turmoil and in disrepair. Municipal finances are on the verge of bankruptcy. Entire neighborhoods are falling into ruin, blighted by drugs and prostitution. Real estate prices are plummeting. … Read more
Title: “Sweet Chaos: Meryem Alaoui’s Novel Explores the Vibrant Lives of New York’s Diverse Residents” In her latest novel, “Sweet Chaos,” Meryem Alaoui takes readers on a captivating journey through the lives of the residents of a typical New York building in the heart of Brooklyn. Formerly a poor neighborhood, the area has now become … Read more
The Phantom Year by Didier Tronchet Dupuis, coll. “Free area”, 192 p., €27 We had left him on a lost island, now we find him at the top of Paris. Neither quite the same, nor quite another. The creator of Jean-Claude Tergal, an award-winning funny series about his alter ego, a sentimental loser in a … Read more
Assemblage de Natasha Brown Translated from English by Jakuta Alikavazovic Grasset, 160 p., 17 € For an average Briton, in other words a white man, her identity seems simple to describe: she is a black woman, attractive, from the training of excellence of “Oxbridge”, salaried employee with brilliant success; the portrait is completed by a … Read more
He was arrested at JFK airport in New York and charged on January 7, 2022 with “electronic fraud”. Accused of usurping the identities of various personalities from the publishing world, Filippo Bernardini, 30, a former London employee of the American publishing house Simon & Schuster, admitted on Friday 6 January before the federal justice system … Read more
Nostalgia. Story of a deadly emotion by Thomas Dodman Threshold, 314 p., € 23.50 Open Littré’s dictionary, published in 1872, to the word nostalgia. Surprised, read: Term of medicine. Thomas Dodman, a Franco-British historian who teaches at Columbia, explains it to us: Littré was right, the nostalgia that moves us today through sepia-colored photos or … Read more
Science, the test of God? by Francois Euve Salvator, 186 p., 18 € Without saying so explicitly, this little book responds to Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies who, with their recent work God, science, evidence (Guy Trédaniel, 2021, 577 p., €24), have caused trouble for some, false hopes for others. The authors in question seek … Read more
► You think therefore I am The Great Void de Léa Murawiec Editions 2024, 200 pages, €29 The concept of Great Void is at the same time simple, cruel and… brilliant from a scriptwriting point of view: if no one thinks of you anymore, then you will die. To survive in this dystopian city-world, the … Read more