While "Un garçon sans histoire" is the story of a struggle, it is also the story of an apprenticeship, and traces the path taken by the author and her husband as they learn how to become a family. This is the very same story that "Ton frère" pursues. Minh Tran Huy records the various revelations brought about by her ordeal.…

What does writing a biography entail? How could one qualify a biographer's position vis-à-vis their subject? What is the true nature of their involvement? What are their responsibilities? All these questions emerge from Janet Malcolm's fascinating study of the Sylvia Plath's myth.

Designed as a platform for Villa Albertine’s wide-ranging debates, this issue is a complete transcription of the Museum Series held in 2023 at Villa Albertine’s headquarters in New York. Presented in partnership with the Center for Curatorial Leadership, the Museum Series featured insights from 24 esteemed women museum directors from the US, France, and the Middle East, over the course…

A common practice in teaching and the publishing professions, reading a text multiple times is a key activity in the training of a reader, yet one that is largely ignored by research subjects. Laure Murat's survey of more than two hundred intellectuals raises questions that are as fundamental as they are inexhaustible.

A story of the border between reality and virtual. Julian was a piano teacher with a pretty banal existence before he discovers the Antimonde.

Ici commence un amour is a story about love, but it is also a story about grief and class and growing up, about trying to be a writer and a man and a person. It’s tender and restless and vicious at times.

Aliène, at its core, is about alienation. It probes the powerful warp of loneliness, the violent hierarchies of our world, the subtle horror of everyday life. 

An easy read that takes us on a journey through an aesthetic Korean interlude. A must-read if you want to experience the complexity of a simple story!

“This is how one forgets things, how one forgets people, and how he forgets Cécile, and he'd like to prevent this gap that's gradually opening up in his memory from devouring his face, because forgetting is unfair and brutal, it swallows up the color of eyes, the shape of hands, perfumes and words, and leaves only the memory of death…