Strasbourg’s Obscurae Bookstore of the Strange Closes its Doors and Offers Book Sales

Strasbourg’s Obscurae Bookstore of the Strange Closes its Doors and Offers Book Sales

Home / Local news / Strasbourg: Obscurae, the bookstore of the strange, is already closing its doors Info locale Just one year after its opening, the bookstore of the strange Obscurae, located at 10 rue Munch, closed shop. At issue: a complicated economic reality. To help the manager empty his stocks, he invites us, via … Read more

Top History Books for Christmas 2023: Gift Ideas to Delight Any History Buff

Top History Books for Christmas 2023: Gift Ideas to Delight Any History Buff

This is a good time to both give gifts and immerse yourself in exciting reading. Especially since the range of personalities and periods shines with its diversity: the war of 39-45, the Napoleonic empire, the Ancien Régime… Giving a book for the holidays is often a good idea. But not just any book: this is … Read more

Colomiers BD Festival 2023: A Perfect Weekend for Comic Fans!

Colomiers BD Festival 2023: A Perfect Weekend for Comic Fans!

Par Toulouse editorial team Published on 16 Nov 23 at 20:12 See my news Follow Toulouse News Having become essential, the bd festival de Colomiers brings together every year since 1984, in a friendly and family atmosphere, approximately 14 000 fans lover of French and international comics. 150 authors present Its strong lines are a … Read more

The Naivety of Criticism: Exploring the Rowdy Big Apple of the ‘Seventies’ in Seth Greenland’s New Novel

The Naivety of Criticism: Exploring the Rowdy Big Apple of the ‘Seventies’ in Seth Greenland’s New Novel

CRITICISM – The writer takes up certain characters from his previous novels, gives them a past and recapitulates an entire era. That of the rowdy Big Apple of the “seventies”. This shows his naivety. In 1976, Paul Schwartzman, nicknamed Pablo, dreamed of writing a screenplay about Cicero. In the meantime, he writes porn film reviews … Read more

You don’t know anything about me: The Prize-Winning First Novel that Explores the Life of the ‘Mown of Chartres’ and the Purge

You don’t know anything about me: The Prize-Winning First Novel that Explores the Life of the ‘Mown of Chartres’ and the Purge

You don’t know anything about me by Julie Héraclès won the Prize for best first novel. The book returns to the Purge symbolized by a photo by Robert Capa showing a woman branded for having collaborated with the Germans. «Writing about her has never been a way of clearing her customs, but, perhaps, of making … Read more

Russia’s Unilateral Rewrite: Manipulating History Textbooks to Serve Propaganda

Russia’s Unilateral Rewrite: Manipulating History Textbooks to Serve Propaganda

It’s like returning to the darkest hours of the Soviet period: Russia is rewriting its history textbooks. In less than a month, at the start of the new school year, Russian Terminale students will now study a revised and corrected version of history. Entire sections of textbooks will be modified, especially those relating to Ukraine. … Read more

Illinois Makes History as First State to End Book Bans: Democratic Governor Signs Landmark Law

All smiles, sitting in the middle of a library in downtown Chicago, the Democratic Governor of Illinois, Jay Robert Pritzker, signed Monday, June 12 the first law of its kind in the United States. “Today, Illinois makes history as the first state in our nation to officially end book bans once and for all, he … Read more

“The Joyful Lexicon of La Boutique Tic-Tic”

For this season 3 of Read me a story libraries and media libraries are mobilizing. On the program: adventure of course, friendship, suspense, but also love. Boutique Tic Tic, by Frédéric Clément, it is the wonderful story of Monsieur Madeleine, an old traveler and bargain-hunter who decides, to lighten his house, to open a shop … Read more

in Florida, a law obliges teachers to hide the books while waiting for their validation

Like her colleagues, Isabelle, a Franco-American teacher, wept. Everyone was in denial, the law seemed so unreal. But two weeks ago hiding all the books has become an obligation. She says: “I covered them, I put a sheet. There are a lot of emotions, sadness, frustration, anger. Many of us are scared of what this … Read more