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...

“La célébrité est ma vie. Celle que je savais que j’aurais, celle que j’ai fait en sorte d’avoir. Est-ce que j'étais préparée à un tel succès? Bien sûr que oui.” [Fame is my life. The thing I knew I would have and did everything to have. Was I prepared for this kind of success? Yes, of course.]

In her deeply moving debut, Zeno, Léa Hirschfeld finds unexpected nodes of divergence and similarity among differently abled people. The book is autofictional, somewhere between narrative and story. It follows Léa as she grows up in the shadow of her older brother’s disability. She loves her brother but she feels unable to connect with him and she is acutely aware…

What are legends made of? What is it about them that fascinates us, draws us in and drives us to perpetuate them? What do their secrets, buried in the shadows, reveal about our innermost selves? All these questions, familiar to avid readers, lie at the heart of L'Invention de Tristan, a bewitching, captivating novel whose plot, an investigation of the…

To break through taboos can require a certain prowess. This prowess Neige Sinno has demonstrated twice. Once, when aged 19, she filed a lawsuit against her step father who raped her repeatedly from her 7th until her 15 birthday. Then again, when she published Triste Tigre -- which is clearly the book phenomenon of this literary fall.

"How do you conjure up a man whose memories and anecdotes - and aren't memories anecdotes? - would have upset him or made him angry?" asks Denis Podalydès in L'Ami de la famille, Souvenirs de Pierre Bourdieu, a formative account that is as moving as it is humble.