'Strike Your Heart’ is a finely honed, piercing novel. No wonder it is acclaimed in France. If you are human, it will strike your heart,...

In the last few weeks, you might have heard the names of Emmanuel Macron, Leïla Slimani, Alain Mabanckou, and a number of other writers...

Your better half is away? You are too tired to go out? You are single anyway? … … Well, that doesn’t matter at all, because what we would...

Member of the Académie française, Jean-Christophe Rufin has been ambassador for France in Senegal and Gambia. His different books are...