Don’t be daunted by the size of the novel! Despite spanning hundreds of pages, you’ll find The Postcard to be a quick read. Berest knows how to leave the reader full of suspense and desire – and you’ll be fully immersed in the pages to the point where you’ll feel as though The Postcard in your hands has transformed into…

Nikki Delage, High Commissioner for Active Solidarity Against Poverty, lied. Once a woman adored by the public, and baptized by the media as Mother Nikki for her unfailing commitment to housing the poorest, is now someone who has fallen to the lowest rank, living as a recluse in a family house in the south. Once again, Samira Sedira engages in…

You may have heard of Ágota Kristóf’s first novel, The Notebook [Le Grand Cahier], which won the 2008 European literary award and even garnered public praise from rock star philosopher Žižek – but what about her memoir, The Illiterate?

Mother’s Day Alert: you won’t find a better hymn to women’s talent and creativity than this rapturous A Left-Handed Woman this spring!

Vuillard's real subject is always the language, and in these pages, he exposes the mechanism of the colonizer’s language within a handful of scenes: a visit at a rubber plantation, to a parliamentary session in which Pierre Mendès-France exposes the excessive price of war, to Jean de Lattre de Tassigny’s speech on NBC, to exposing the French military’s miscalculations under…