In her eighth novel, Sophie Divry draws on the conventions of the horror genre and infuses them with all-too-current issues: climate change, toxic masculinity, the nuclear family, the mental load, social estrangement…

Jérôme Lindon’s compact 60 pages, translated by Mark Polizzotti with an attention to language which does great justice to its subject matter, can be read in a morning’s commute.

There are certain novels that demand to be read aloud. As I made my way through Hélène Bessette’s "Twenty Minutes of Silence", with its choral structure and litany of criminal accusations, I couldn’t help but think it should be read shouting.

A paranoiac haze pervades The Gangsters, the not-quite policier penned by an early-career Hervé Guibert.

Set in the coastal town of Kamakura, this quietly compelling novel introduces us to Shota, a young literature student whose comfortable life is abruptly upended when his parents can no longer support him financially. Resourceful and determined, Shota takes on a series of odd jobs to cover his rent, meals, and daily needs.

For all those who once believed they had to be discreet, perfect, or useful in order to be loved, Communion opens a space for restitution. It's a text that doesn't give lessons, but offers a tender, demanding and profoundly human view. And we would do well to listen to it.

The title La guerre par d'autres moyens encapsulates the central conflict of the story: a war fought not on battlefields, but through ambition, ego, and emotional sabotage. Power comes in many forms—and every character wants a taste.

In this moving exploration of familial bonds—blending sociological inquiry with personal testimony—Passeron captures the isolation endured by families at a time when the virus was unknown, denial pervasive, and the afflicted harshly ostracized. An outcast.

Here's an age-old refrain: a man meets a woman after a screening of Leo McCarey's masterpiece, An Affair to Remember They already know the story that awaits them, having lived it through their own fiction. And yet...