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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...
Book Launch: Seloua Luste Boulbina - Les Miroirs vagabonds ou la décolonisation des savoirs
French-Algerian philosopher Seloua Luste Boulbina will be hosting the book launch of her latest work this coming Saturday (19/01) at the...
Anniversary: The Second Sex (1949)
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's feminist and existentialist book The Second Sex (Le...
Translators: a call to applications
The French association for the promotion of literary translation Atlas is offering emerging translators an amazing professional...
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...
Lévi-Strauss: a biography, Emmanuelle Loyer
'This is the first true biography of one of the greatest French intellectual of the twentieth century, who lived to the age of 100 and...
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...
Insight into French children's literature at the Montreuil book fair
The 2018 edition of the South Ken Kids festival has officially started! The festival is the perfect occasion to celebrate children’s...
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