Book sales: “conspiratorial” essays at the party

While the next generation of spring (Mélissa Da Costa, Michel Bussi, Aurélie Valognes) is settling comfortably into the list of fictions, that of essays is experiencing a serious upheaval (nine new entries) with, in particular, two “scientific” slayers of truths official. Thus the neurobiologist Alexandra Henrion Caude, ex-director of research at Inserm, who condemns messenger RNA vaccines; as well as statistician Pierre Chaillot, covid-skeptic in chief, who is in second place.

Other beneficiaries of the tsunami of the week, in a very different register, the screenwriter and novelist Sarah Barukh, who analyzes in a collective book (125 votes and thousands) patterns common to feminicides; the plea for three-way friendship by Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, which takes 16th place in our ranking; or the call to Save gender difference of the journalist Figaro Eugenie Bastie. When is the next gale? Marianne Payot

16. Full-scale

By Erri DeLuca

A little book that weighs its weight of emotions. In this collection of nine stories and short stories, the favorite Italian author of the French evokes in a very personal way the relationship between parents and children. Young Neapolitan vagabonds, the youth of May 68, the daughter of a Nazi war criminal on the run, the director of an orphanage in Warsaw… arise under the plus of this man whose only children are his books.

7. The last breath. End of life support

By Claude Grange and Régis Debray

As the citizens’ convention on the end of life comes to an end, Dr. Grange, former head of a palliative care unit in Houdan, brings his expertise on the current conditions of care given to dying people. While his friend Régis Debray analyzes the major upheavals in our relationship with the end of life. A duo that hits the mark.

Spain

El Cuco of crystal

Por Javier Castillo

The sixth novel by the “Spanish Stephen King” is off to a flying start. To the credit of this native of Malaga, darling of the peninsula since 2017 and his first thriller El día que se perdió la cordura, La Chica de nieve (The Little Girl in the Snow, Albin Michel) whose adaptation in six episodes prances on Netflix. In short, we no longer stop this 36-year-old ex-financial adviser, with the false air of Joël Dicker.