Tag: Books
Pick up your driver’s license among the thousands of books: Nieuwegein’s town hall has a ‘spectacular’ new look
Renovation with a price tag The Nieuwegein municipal council has made 12.6 million euros available for the renovation of the town hall. “We stayed within that,” a spokesperson said. “The…
in “Your promise”, Camille Laurens brilliantly describes the tricks of control – L’Express
After discussing the image of the mother last week with Marie Nimier (The Dark Side of the Queen), let’s move on to the eternal and universal subject of the novel,…
“There is something special in Irish writing” – L’Express
Exhausted ! Paul Lynch has no other word to describe his condition. Since November 26, 2023, the day the Booker Prize was awarded for The Song of the Prophet (Prophet’s…
“It is perhaps the most important of my books” – L’Express
Wide-eyed, surprised look, “BHL” doesn’t understand the question, and it seems sincere. No, really, why when sleepless night (Grasset), his latest book, could we accuse him of any snobbery? Narrating…
Myriam Meyer: “It was my students who revealed to me my vocation as a teacher”
And during this end-of-year holiday season, Frédéric Rivière is offering us a different show. A single subject, vast, deep and ultimately also very political, it is education and in this…
Guillaume Ancel, breaking the silence
French writer, Guillaume Ancel is a former officer trained at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr. Through his books, he questions both his experience of command and France’s role in…
“She presented me as a redneck” – L’Express
May 2022. A few months before receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux comes out The Young Mana booklet of around forty pages where she tells with great condescension…
What books sold the most at Christmas? Discover the ranking – L’Express
Unsurprisingly, almost no surprise, in our rankings for the last week of December, that of last minute gifts. There we find some of the award-winners of the year, and above…
when silence changes sides – L’Express
There is no escape. For every writer, man or woman, the day comes when we write about our relatives, mother, father or even grandparents. In this single return, Frédéric Beigbeder…
a risky but rather successful bet according to the Colombians
The first eight chapters of the series A hundred years of solitude, adaptation of the famous novel which earned its Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez the Nobel Prize for Literature…