I like rare books and I cannot lie, but like most of us, I’m too poor to ever own any rare books. But I can window-shop! I can read and dream… Read more »

There’s no question that this election has been an unending horror show, draining us of our will to live, or at least to talk to people who hold different (wrong)… Read more »

Earlier this week, the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF, in English “International Organization of Francophone Countries”) announced the latest winner of its prestigious literary prize: Kamel Daoud, Algerian author… Read more »

In Prospect Magazine this week, Andy Martin writes about the files that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept on both Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus after 1945. Sartre was involved in… Read more »

Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »

November 7 is the 100th anniversary of Albert Camus’ birth. The author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, among others, Camus remains a huge presence in French literature,… Read more »