Tag: Books
the art of bowing out – L’Express
He loved the number five, yes for being born on 05/05/1935. I don’t think he never played it at roulette, but there you have it, without being superstitious for a…
“We thought we knew, but we didn’t know everything” – L’Express
I remember. It was September 21 of the year 2000, this year marked with as many zeros as there were Olympic circles, or almost. I remember a disappearance. With Pérec,…
The American writer Paul Auster, author of the “New York Trilogy”, died at 77 – L’Express
Paul Auster, prolific American author of novels, poems and films propelled onto the international literary scene by his “New York Trilogy”, died of complications from lung cancer at the age…
we read the latest novel by Edouard Louis – L’Express
In The origins, sociologist Gérald Bronner (columnist at L’Express) criticized Edouard Louis for propagating a “doloristic” vision of class defectors. But, surprise, Monique escapes stands out for its optimism. “For…
Edgard Morin, Francis Ford Coppola, Hughes Aufray… Retirement, what retirement? – The Express
And one, and two, and three. Three books signed by Edgar Morin with three different publishers are published between April 24 and mid-June. An astonishing productivity from a sociologist and…
the first remarkable novel by a storyteller – L’Express
We talked about it recently in these pages: in two generations, sales of history books have collapsed. Has a certain postmodern amnesia won out? As André Castelot turns in his…
Salman Rushdie, is his latest book a success? Discover our list – L’Express
“At ten forty-five o’clock on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, I was attacked and nearly murdered by a young man armed with a…
Golf: Nelly Korda entered the history books with Annika Sörenstam: “Can finally breathe out”
– Now I can finally breathe out and enjoy the moment. The last nine holes are the longest I have played in my entire life, the nerves kicked in when…
Would the Americans have understood Foucault’s thought better than the French? – The Express
The scene takes place in October 1980. “Invited by the Howison Lectures Committee of Berkeley (California) to deliver two lectures on “Truth and Subjectivity”, 800 people crowded into Wheeler Hall…
“Vine Street”, a feverish thriller in the twilight London of the 1930s – L’Express
It is sometimes difficult to define the charm of a thriller. It is thus Vine Street by Dominic Nolan, published by Rivages. Summary of a sentence, banality lurks since it…