Tag: Books
Karina Sainz Borgo and Nicolas Chemla: books not to be missed
The Third Country By Karina Sainz Borgo, trans. from Spanish (Venezuela) by Stéphanie Decante. Gallimard, 304 p., €23. L’Express rating: 4/5 The Third Country By Karina Sainz Borgo, trans. from…
Books: “blurbs”, a popular phenomenon from the United States
Sometimes, one wonders if there are not on average two or three masterpieces of literature published per week. From this perspective, the bookstore tour worries instead of reassures. Because if…
Investigation into the abuses of private crèches: They have “more eyes on the figures than on the well-being of the children”
Private nurseries singled out in France with two surveys and revelations concerning the very early childhood sector. Savings on diapers, under-provided meals and insufficient supervision despite public subsidies. Children in…
Emmanuel Favier author of “Le livre de Rose”: “I transmit a vision of the world, values”
The author Emmanuelle Favier publishes in this literary season a novel dedicated to the resistance fighter and museum curator, Rose Valland, who played a decisive role in the protection of…
Catherine Poulain, Caryl Férey, Dominique Barbéris: books not to be missed
The Shadow of a Big Bird By Catherine Poulain. Arthaud, 192 pages, €18. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 The Shadow of a Large Bird By Catherine Poulain. © / Arthaud…
Kristina: “Children’s books and school catalogs – I had to throw everything away”
SMHI has issued a red warning for high flows in Svartån in Västmanland after the heavy rain that fell during the night to Saturday. Västmanland is hard hit and the…
Best-selling books: a big upheaval and two surprises
This time, they are almost all on the starting line, the tenors of the start of the school year. And this is the great upheaval in our list of fictions.…
Daniel Herrero, Maggie O’Farrell and Neige Sinno: the books not to be missed
The Wedding Portrait By Maggie O’Farrell, trans. from English (Ireland) by Sarah Tardy. Belfond, 412 pages, €23.50. The rating of L’Express: 5/5 The Wedding Portrait By Maggie O’Farrell, trans. from…
25 years of banned sci-fi horror classic with lots of disgust now available in limited 4K as new uncut media books
A few years before director David Cronenberg had his breakthrough with Scanners, Videodrome or Die Fliege, the body horror and sci-fi doyen created his first commercial film, Parasiten-Mörder (“Shivers”) just…
“Humus” by Gaspard Koenig: the first novel of the Uprisings of the Earth?
Gaspard Koenig’s latest book, Humus (Editions de l’Observatoire), would it be the first novel of the Uprisings of the Earth? It is tempting to believe it since it is about…