Summer, the perfect season to go green, in every sense of the word? Certainly, the firebrands signed by climatosceptics rarely invite themselves into this list. But we note here an overrepresentation of political ecology with the activist Camille Etienne (For an ecological uprising) and especially the collective Les Uprisings of the Earth and its vituperating manifesto You don’t dissolve an uprising co-signed by around forty people, including such renowned writers as Virginie Despentes and Alain Damasio.
As for novels, are we also rising up to save the planet? A priori, no – someone like Virginie Grimaldi is not known for her environmental positions. Does this mean that literature lives above ground, cut off from the environment? Nay: the long-lasting carton of Cédric Sapin-Defour’s book offers a denial. In Its smell after the rain, an ode to his Bernese mountain dog, he also sings about nature. In a gentler way than The Uprisings of the Earth…
Literary awards.
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9. The Seven Sisters (t. VIII). Atlas
By Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker
The Seven Sisters (t. VIII). Atlas By Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker
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The death of Lucinda Riley in 2021 did not end her saga of Seven Sisters. The novelist’s son, Harry Whittaker, took up the torch to write Atlas, the eighth and final book in the series. With nearly 100,000 copies sold here, he proves that he was able to convince his mother’s many admirers.
3. A summer with Jankélévitch
By Cynthia Fleury
A Summer with Jankélévitch By Cynthia Fleury
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The collection led by four hands by the Equators and France Inter is no longer a success: let us quote the book of Antoine Compagnon on Montaigne, or those of Sylvain Tesson on Homère and Rimbaud. A summer with Jankélévitch by Cynthia Fleury seemed reserved for insiders. The proof that not with an uninterrupted presence at the top of our ranking.
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Nuestro Cuerpo
Por Juan Luis Arsuaga
Spain Nuestro cuerpo Por Juan Luis Arsuaga
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It’s not every day that a paleoanthropologist experiences such a welcome in bookstores. When he is not scouring prehistoric sites, Professor Juan Luis Arsuaga teaches in Madrid and London, and gives lectures around the world. In his new book, Nuestro Cuerpo, he deciphers the evolution of the human body over the last seven million years. A clever popular essay that has been doing very well for a month and a half in Spain, where it ranks first in non-fiction sales by El Cultural.