Tag: Books
Proust in goodies, comics, theater: shocking or unexpected democratization?
True Proustians would like us to speak only of books. Those of their idol, “La Recherche”, they are content to say, or those of serious academics exploring his work again…
With “Immersion”, Hélène Artaud questions our relationship to the oceans
/ Podcasts / Book France How our relationship with the ocean has changed over the centuries, and more specifically in recent years… This is the question addressed by the France…
Special: Reading Day with Twelve Female Writers
On the occasion of National Reading Day in France, Friday March 10, 2023, special programming. “I read, you read, you read” and they read. They, like the twelve writers chosen…
Lunch of L’Express bestsellers: and suddenly the Vivendi affair comes to the table…
We did not airlift it to the roof of the Royal Monceau-Rafles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, but we are not far from it. Train canceled, so plane, then…
Negar Djavadi: “The Iranian mullahs are ready to do anything to stay in power”
Leaving Iran illegally at the age of 11, Negar Djavadi experienced the upheavals of the Iranian revolution of 1979. Coming from a family committed against the Shah, then against the…
Who sold the most books in 2022? Discover the winners of L’Express
450,000 copies (according to Edistat) sold from The Alaska Sanders Affair by the Helvetian Joël Dicker (more than 100,000 copies for French-speaking Swiss), more than 300,000 copies for The Mage…
Ranking of best-selling books: academicians in step
Hard, hard… It is no longer enough to write good books and have a good reputation to appear on our list. Thus academicians or (and) former Prix Goncourt published in…
Raymond Depardon: “One of the toughest books I’ve done about myself”
/ Podcasts / Cultural guest For many years, French photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon traveled the world. But in his new book In the meantime, he offers another side of…
books written by ChatGPT hit the market
With the success of ChatGPT, publishers and e-book platforms like Amazon find themselves overwhelmed with books written by or with AI. A phenomenon that worries the real authors… ChatGPT, the…
Bret Easton Ellis in “American retro” mode for his big comeback
The taste of the past spares no one. Bret Easton Ellis was once the enfant terrible of American letters, the alter ego of Jay McInerney within the Brat Pack, launched…