Tag: Books
“The Witcher”, “The Evil Link”… The five best novels about witchcraft
The third season of The Witcher, June 29 on Netflix, invites us in the footsteps of the Witcher. From Samantha’s little nose to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, wizards, beloved or…
Book sales: who are the big winners of the first semester?
We must take it for granted: the list of best-selling fiction should know little upheaval, at least until August 17, the release date of the first books of the literary…
Cinema, Netflix, television… Nearly one in five works adapted from a book
No time to admire the superb view of Paris from the 18th floor of the BnF’s Tour des lois. It is because the 200 publishers and producers gathered on June…
Jean-Pierre Montal, Eric Fouassier and Frantz Vaillant: books not to be missed
Their rush By Jean-Pierre Montal. Seguier, 246 pages, €20. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 Their chamade By Jean-Pierre Montal. © / Seguier “Architecture is frozen music”, said Goethe. It is…
AI: literary translators, the next victims of algorithms?
Of all the professions that artificial intelligence (known as AI) is likely to kill, that of literary translator seems a priori to concern only a tiny particle within a microcosm.…
Open books for each school
S believes that independent principals must report for each school where income and expenses go – for example, if they go to withdraw profit or pass money on to a…
Book sales: the nice surprise “Attacking the earth and the sun”
Prices can do wonders. The 49th Inter Book Prize, unveiled on Monday June 5, could be one of these. Its winner, Mathieu Belezi, almost unknown despite an already rich work…
Pauline Dreyfus, the appalled linguists and Claudio Fava: books not to be missed
My life with Colette by Pauline Dreyfus. Gallimard, 151 pages, €17.50. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 My Life with Colette by Pauline Dreyfus. © / Gallimard She was a music-hall…
From “Imagine” to “We Are the World”: when pop claimed to save the world
It was the summer of 1967, the famous summer of love : when you’re in the game, you have to go to California, head for the Monterey festival. Flowers in…
Elise Karlin, Emma Cline and Alice Pol: the books not to be missed
They arose at night By Elise Karlin. Editions de l’Observatoire, 224 p., €20. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 They Arose at Night By Elise Karlin. © / Editions of the…