Tag: Books
the Quais du polar festival celebrates its twenty years in color – L’Express
It’s the event of the week, even the month. Polar Quays celebrates its 20th anniversary! Twenty years of passion, twenty years of attraction. Not a single great one of his…
Bernard Minier: the unique know-how of "king of thriller"
Bernard Minier doesn’t like being reminded of this feat of arms, but we can’t resist it. On April 15, 2011, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès left the Formula 1 hotel in…
why thriller heroes are eternal – L’Express
They are police officers or private detectives, journalists or forensic doctors. They live in Paris, London, Los Angeles, Pretoria or elsewhere. They are called Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nestor Burma…
Josée Kamoun or the art of translation – L’Express
“When I feel my strength diminishing, I will undertake the translation of Moby-Dick, the one that I always wanted to do, 700 pages of a difficulty equal to the beast…
Books : "Carolyn and John"beautiful and damned
It was not good to be a jet-set figure in the late 1990s. On July 16, 1999, two years after Lady Di’s fatal car accident, Carolyn Bessette and her husband,…
romance and old hands in the spotlight – L’Express
And three new “genre” books, between romance and romanticism, in our fiction list. In the first place, the one that we no longer present, or almost, as she now remains…
Kaouther Adimi and the legs of Hassiba Boulmerka – L’Express
“I remember that on August 8, 1992, in Annaba, a coastal town in eastern Algeria where I spent the summer with my parents, we watched on the small screen Hassiba…
despite uncertain profitability, the genre is flourishing – L’Express
It is most often a story of passion and friendship, a fancy way of saying that literary magazines spend more money than they make. Which doesn’t stop them from thriving.…
Incomprehension in South Korea over the banning of certain books in American states
South Korean books for teenagers are banned in some US states. The latest, The banned books club, which unfortunately lives up to its name, has been removed from shelves in…
Did The Little Prince erase Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? – The Express
Raphaël Enthoven opened hostilities on Europe 1 in 2017, before doing it again in Point in 2018: finding “no interest in all these interchangeable pages”, he lost his mind The…