Happening, Annie Ernaux"In Happening, Ernaux marches her army toward memory, the memory of an abortion she had in 1963." - Susan Salter Reynolds, The LA Times...
Adèle, Leila Slimani“Fascinating . . . Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood–the idea that you can have it all or should at least die...
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Bruno Latour"Latour's most important contribution to current debates may be his untimely insistence on the importance of thinking universally in a...
Hear Our Defeats, Laurent Gaudé"Hear Our Defeats is a grand poem, a crazy and wise book. Crazy because the reader gets carried away by all the voices and some unknown...
The Survival of the Jews in France: 1940-44, Jacques Semelin'May well prove to be a landmark in the historiography of the subject … well-researched and cogently argued’ — Times Literary Supplement...
The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard"A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster. It seems designed single-mindedly to remind us that,...
Books of the Week 2018, it's a wrap!What a tremendous year of books it was! Here is a list of every Book of the Week of the year 2018. You can click on each one to have more...
Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne, Roland Topor'Topor's drawings could be as violent as they were elliptical or caustic, he exploited the limits of taste. It is what makes him engaging...
The Arab of the Future 3, Riad Sattouf'Among the greatest cartoonists of his generation' - Le Monde 'An authentic,emotionally honest memoir' - The Guardian One month after the...
Edouard Glissant: a Poetics of resistance, Sam Coombes'A single word captures that project's implication: freedom' - Neil Roberts, president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association Édouard...