Tag: Books
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…
Francophone book meetings in Kigali: Mohammed Mbougar Sarr and Wilfried N’Sondé
Mohammed Mbougar Sarr, Senegalese author, Goncourt Prize 2021 for “ The most secret memory of men » and Wilfried N’Sondé born in Brazzaville, multi-award winning author notably for his historical…
Aslak Nore, Paula Jacques and Maryline Desbiolles: books not to be missed
The Cemetery of the Sea By Aslak Nore, trans. from Norwegian by Loup-Maëlle Besançon The noise of the world, 512 p., 25 €. Express rating: 3/5 By Aslak Nore, trans.…
Faced with inflation, the British buy fewer books for their children
News Published on 03/01/2023 at 2:29 p.m. Updated 03/01/2023 at 2:29 p.m. Reading 2 mins. The cost of living crisis is deepening in the UK, forcing many Britons to cut…
On the arduous work of a writer, by Pierre Assouline
Basically, it is no coincidence that the expression “book chain” is so widespread: those who participate in it live like chained people. Also these galley slaves of the literary life…