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Top of the (French) Pops 4
Can you smell that? Well, there's chaos in the air as DJ Nico has chosen No Format this time round (I think he went for Coco Pops instead...
Victoires de la Musique 2016 preview
John Kilbride of VIVELEROQ.COM writes a list of those nominated, any his thoughts about who might win each category. Friday February 12...
Henri Scissorhands: Matisse and the ghost of Louis Aragon
Dancers, bees, swallows, sharks, sword-swallowers, mermaids, stars: even first thing on a Sunday morning, the Matisse exhibition at Tate...
French dystopias: Soumission, Houellebecq /2084, Sansal /Gratis, Herzog
To judge by the publishers’ lists, dystopias are big literary business in France right now. Three 2015 releases propose different views...
Top of the (French) Pops 3
It's time for a Monday night playlist from DJ Nico (librarian at the Institut français). If you missed episode 2, catch up on...
When sex goes wrong: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Donmar Warehouse
Well, that didn’t disappoint. I booked Les Liaisons Dangereuses in some trepidation, though: not only is it up there amongst my favourite...
Mustang: a French insight into the Oscars debate
In the troubled times of the Oscars Debate about the lack of diversity in the art industry, Mustang’s nomination to the 88th Academy...
Killing an Arab, finding an Arab: Rewriting Camus’ L’Étranger
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...
Michel Houellebecq’s Mapping of French Culture
We kicked off the new year with an absolutely electric session of the Reading Group at the Institut français on Jan 14. Here's the...
BD Bonanza: Angoulême special
Yesterday saw the start of the 43rd Angoulême International Comics Festival. Wait, what is Angoulême? It's just a small city in the...
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