Tag: Books
a 40th album in all kindness and under close surveillance – L’Express
We played the game. And, to our naive disappointment, we are not the only ones. Around thirty journalists, French and foreign, came to crowd, in Vanves, on the 4th floor…
“You were in alternative cinema, with Asterix, you arrived in Hollywood” – L’Express
Plateau de Vanves, 4th floor of the Hachette Livre building, Aparté room, 9:15 a.m. Here it is, the 40th Asterix album: The white Iris. We have three quarters of an…
Annie Ernaux in the age of social networks – L’Express
Le Select, boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris, is not exactly known for being a young people’s hangout. That day, we came across the anthropologist Emmanuel Todd as we entered. It…
the man who didn’t like Sherlock Holmes – L’Express
Conan Doyle said it himself: “The essay is not the most attractive literary form, unless it is done in the most delicate way. It is too reminiscent of the school…
this ex-Prime Minister who disappears from the radar – L’Express
You have to have a strong heart when you are a novelist from the August literary season and you see yourself little by little being beaten by later authors. The…
This is where the epa young people slip in – to read books:
Can an epa and some pizza make young people start reading books? Yes, in any case in the small community of Svenstavik in Jämtland, where the unique project Epa Book…
With “Black bodies”, Christelle Bakima Poundza questions the place of black women in fashion
Black bodies: reflection on modeling, fashion and black women, it’s the France Book of the week. The author is Christelle Bakima Poundza who has been scrutinizing the catwalks and fashion…
the Laure Murat surprise – L’Express
Things are moving fast in the test rankings with five new entries in the week of October 2 to 8 (according to Edistat). Exit Alain Duhamel, Pascal Ory and Gilles…
Books in Quebec, a dynamic and expanding sector
Second special broadcast in Montreal, Quebec, discovering the literature of the Canadian province. Great on-site report with booksellers, authors, publishers and all those who bring books to life in Quebec,…
“The daughter of herself”, when Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay “comes to the front” with her transidentity
The Quebec writer and actress Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, activist for trans people, is the first author in French-speaking Canada to have testified to her transidentity in a novel entitled The daughter…