One of Alice Kaplan's merits is her ability to capture the historical context of the period. The author of Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary perfectly depicts artistic life in Paris in the immediate post-war period, with the first uprisings in Algeria and their political repercussions in France. “For my part, thanks to Baya's story, I'll…

In short, this dictionary invites you on a voyage of discovery for novice and seasoned readers alike. With the gift-giving season just around the corner, we're sure that this Dictionnaire amoureux de la littérature américaine will be a hit under the tree.

Édouard Louis in Monique s’évade reveals his mom’s bravery. She is finally choosing herself and deciding that she does not deserve this. “This” is verbal abuse and daily insults flying out of her tormentor’s mouth once his whiskey drink is finished. 

Un désir démesuré d'amitié is an invitation to an open conversation about the ever-widening gap between the variety and profound hybridity of the ties that bind us to those closest to us, and the inability of institutions to recognize the power of these ties. The child of 3 parents, all three heterosexual, Hélène, who describes herself as very close to…

“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.]

On June 24th 2024, Brigitte Fontaine celebrated her 85th birthday in her sacred kingdom: Paris. A year earlier, she slipped into bookstores with a new book  whose enigmatic title is Fatrasie. The artist knows she is nearing the end of her life and doesn’t hesitate to write about it:

With an extremely graphic and fluid prose, whose quiet audacity and freedom is reminiscent of the writings of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, Emma Becker examines her love and sex life from every angle, with staggering frankness. "Le Mal Joli" is also a deep exploration of the bounds between experience and writing.

At the invitation of the collection Ma Nuit au Musée (éd. Stock) - which has produced such little jewels as Jakuta Alikavazovic's Like a Sky in Us and Lola Lafon's Quand tu entendras cette chanson) - Mauritian writer Ananda Devi spent a night in Lyon's Montluc Prison Museum.

Julia Deck's formidable narrative borrows from every genre (family investigation, memoir, formative novel) to put into words her mother's life and their relationship, at once complex and changing, fusional and distant, loving and conflicted. A stubborn and impossible love, like the mission the author sets to herself, except that impossible is not Julia Deck!