Tag: Books
three nuggets to travel the world without leaving your sofa – L’Express
A few years ago, the dandy journalist Matthias Debureaux published a hilarious essay entitled The art of boring by recounting your travels. Nothing is worse, it is true, than these…
when two works dedicated to the National Rally emerge… – L’Express
We had to wait for the result of the European elections, Sunday evening, June 9, and the dissolution of the National Assembly decided by Emmanuel Macron, for books relating to…
better than the series “The Buccaneers”, reread Edith Wharton! – The Express
She was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1916, in recognition of her commitment to her adopted homeland and her assistance to refugees during the war. Buried in…
the story of these French-speaking hits which crossed borders – L’Express
Not sure that this afternoon of June 21, in France and in the approximately 120 countries around the world which are organizing the Music Festival, we are singing at the…
“Behind my very handsome side…” – L’Express
Saint-Etienne, early 1990s. A 14-year-old teenager, Laurent Regairaz, discovered the joys of drunkenness at Baladin: “It was run by a friend’s parents. Coming from a bourgeois background in Chabrol [NDLR…
why you absolutely have to read “Crying in the supermarket”, by Michelle Zauner – L’Express
Would Amélie Nothomb have been inspired by Michelle Zauner? Last year, the Belgian Baroness published a story entitled Psychopomp. It has not escaped fans of independent rock that Psychopomp was…
The “Paris!” exhibition, a very flattering image of the capital before the Olympics – L’Express
“Paris!”, a title that is both sober and a little boastful for a (free) exhibition of the Town Hall and its bookish variation on the enterprise of asserted seduction, all…
the Landing eclipses the elections – L’Express
The dead are definitely “popular”. While in this week from June 3 to 9, Philippe Boxho, the Belgian forensic doctor, continues to lead the way with two works devoted to…
the grace of the Pierre Durand/Jappeloup couple in show jumping – L’Express
I remember a moment of grace. 89.69 seconds spent between earth and sky. Barely a minute and a half of stolen beauty. The impalpable lightness of being. An elf, weightless.…
children’s literature in force – L’Express
Very quiet week from May 27 to June 2. Two entries in fiction and two entries in essays and nothing should really change in a few weeks. By this I…