Tag: Books
Exhibition: “Print! Gutenberg’s Europe” at the National Library of France
/ Podcasts / Cultural report The National Library of France has brought out treasures from its reserves to introduce the general public to the great adventure of printing, which revolutionized…
Literature: between marginality and flashes, with the Afro-German poet May Ayim
Marked with the seal of indocility and melancholy, the poetry of the Afro-German May Ayim enchanted the American Audre Lorde and the Frenchwoman Maryse Condé. “Blues in black and white”…
Ben Jelloun, Gasparotto, Roseau, Le Tellier and Littell: the books not to be missed
The Lovers of Casablanca By Tahar Ben Jelloun. Gallimard, 324 pages, €21. The rating of L’Express: 3/5 The Lovers of Casablanca By Tahar Ben Jelloun. Gallimard © / Gallimard It’s…
After the death of the “widow”, the puzzle of the legacy of Jorge Luis Borges
In Buenos Aires, after having nicknamed it for a long time la hija del samurai (or “the Samurai’s daughter”), which had a little something affectionately exotic, it was only called…
Harry Potter series about all 7 books is officially coming and there is even a first picture
Details of Warner’s Harry Potter plans were leaked last week. Now Warner has officially confirmed at an event for the new streaming service Max: The Harry Potter series is coming.…
Christophe Boltanski, Fritz Zorn and Jacky Schwarzmann: the books not to be missed
King Kasai By Christophe Boltanski. Stock, 160 pages, €18.50. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 King Kasai © / Stock At the outlet of the royal park, former hunting ground of…
Frédéric Mitterrand: “I’m not sure that Brad Pitt is very intelligent”
Readers of Cinema notebooks, go your own way: Frédéric Mitterrand has always been wary of the cold intellectualism of a certain French critical school. To pedantic analyses, he prefers fantasy…
Book sales: the battle of the generations
When the “old” resist. We thought they were forever relegated to the attics of bookstores, but no, they are there, in our Top 30, the novelists who have long passed…
Natalia Borodin, Mathieu Terence and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: books not to be missed
The Prague Scenario By Natalia Borodin. Le Cherche Midi, 432 pages, €21. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 The Prague scenario © / Look for noon It is a precious docu-novel…
Fantasy: the ten must-read novels
Thirty years ago, these tales of elves, goblins and bodybuilder barbarians living in semi-medieval worlds were looked upon with contempt. Since then, there has been the trilogy of Lord of…