Dancers, bees, swallows, sharks, sword-swallowers, mermaids, stars: even first thing on a Sunday morning, the Matisse exhibition at Tate...

To judge by the publishers’ lists, dystopias are big literary business in France right now. Three 2015 releases propose different views...

Well, that didn’t disappoint. I booked Les Liaisons Dangereuses in some trepidation, though: not only is it up there amongst my favourite...

Ask most people to name the best-known French novel of the twentieth century, and they’d almost certainly come up with Albert Camus’s...