Tag: Books
Harmelense collector has 3500 children’s books by WG van der Hulst
Although Boes has never actually met the writer, he has managed to gather a lot of specific knowledge about WG van der Hulst over the years. Like the moment when…
Umberto Eco: the insatiable collector, bibliomaniac and bibliolatrist, by Pierre Assouline
When Samuel Beckett lived on Boulevard de Port-Royal, he offered a carpet to his upstairs neighbors so they wouldn’t hear them walking. Humans wandering over his head prevented him from…
“The French Empire did not allow the development of colonized countries”
In a reference book, researcher Denis Cogneau dismantles certain received ideas about the economic legacy of French colonization. He asserts that the empire set up in Africa and Asia has…
Book sales: these novelists propelled in the ranking by social networks
You will have to get used to it. New names appear in our list of fiction, which you have not necessarily heard of until now, any more than literary criticism…
Russia is rewriting the history books – in the future, middle schoolers will be told more about war heroes and the reasons for the “special operation” in Ukraine
The Minister of Education justifies the textbook reform by, among other things, that “the West is waging an information war against Russia”. That is why schools should tell more about…
With “Offenses”, Constance Debré mixes the thought of Bossuet and the language of Thomas Bernhard
Offenses By Constance Debre. Flammarion, 122 pages, €17.50. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 Offenses By Constance Debré. © / flammarion Constance Debré divides even more than Annie Ernaux: the “left”…
With “Offenses”, Constance Debré mixes the thought of Bossuet and the language of Thomas Bernhard
Offenses By Constance Debre. Flammarion, 122 pages, €17.50. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 Offenses By Constance Debré. © / flammarion Constance Debré divides even more than Annie Ernaux: the “left”…
“The color of things” by Swiss Martin Panchaud, dedicated to Angoulême
Angoulême, in the south-west of France, hosts the international comic strip festival as every year. The awards ceremony for the best albums of this fiftieth edition was held on Saturday…
A book-album on the lullabies of the world
/ Podcasts / Live elsewhere In the book-album 20 Songs and Lullabies from Around the World published by Joyvox, a youth publisher for musical awakening, twenty artists from different countries…
Truck driver, a profession under digital surveillance
The drivers are nice. They are now under surveillance. In the United States, they constitute both a key profession for the economy of a gigantic territory and a singular caste…