Tag: Books
Marc Levy’s sensational entry into our list – L’Express
We have rarely seen a week as stable as this one (from November 18 to 24). Little or no change in fact, whether in the fiction or essay charts, compared…
Sweden decided to replace books with PCs in 2009 and is now committing millions to reverse that
Sweden is returning to traditional education methods after 15 years: a new focus is to be set with 104 million euros for printed books and other reforms. This is the…
the recipes for this literary phenomenon – L’Express
There are phenomena that escape you at first glance. We saw this summer, with a distracted eye, that The Housekeeper (I read) by a certain Freida McFadden triumphed in the…
François Bégaudeau, the free electron of the radical left – L’Express
If Robert Louis Stevenson looked at the strange case of François Bégaudeau, he would distinguish two people: the one who speaks and the one who writes. On YouTube, there are…
From China to the United States, four books to understand everything about current geopolitics – L’Express
A madman in the White House A madman in the White House? Yes, but it’s not what you think. President from 1913 to 1921 – during the First World War,…
the true face of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac or George Sand revealed – L’Express
In the 19th century, we didn’t bother with political correctness, if we are to believe this bad joke from Balzac, unimaginable today: “I worked like a Negro, or like a…
this little detail hidden in its sales figures – L’Express
More than 60,000 copies (as of November 17) in a week plus a Saturday, that’s not bad, even if pre-sales on the platforms are starting to dry up… Without a…
Fariba Adelkhah: this book is “a duty, to all the people who mobilized for me”
Fariba Adelkhah, Franco-Iranian anthropologist, research director at CERI at Sciences-Po, author of the book Prisoner in Tehran published by Éditions du Seuil in Paris, is our great international guest. Arrested…
Franco-Algerian author Kamel Daoud targeted by controversy, Gallimard denounces “defamation”
The publisher Gallimard denounced attacks on Monday, November 18: defamatory » against the Franco-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, 2024 Goncourt Prize for his novel Houris. The Franco-Algerian author is accused, by…
She embalms the dead and breaks taboos in books and on TikTok
News Published on 11/16/2024 at 4:02 p.m. updated on 11/16/2024 at 4:02 p.m. Reading 3 min. Telling the story behind the scenes of death: Stéphanie Sounac, embalmer, presents her shadow…