The narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty scherzo of a “fiction” – “novel” isn’t the word for this uncategorisable book – thinks that Gertrude Stein would have liked Sigmund Freud. She imagines them... Read more »
Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris book festival after a boycott by France’s booksellers’ association prompted a row over the company’s sponsorship of the event. The festival, due to take place from... Read more »
In “Elise and the New Partisans,” a graphic novel set to be published in English for the first time this month, Jacques Tardi’s cartoonlike characters—depicted in realistic, harshly lit, black-and-white Parisian street... Read more »
Eric Hazan, a lifelong Parisian who died in June, wrote several books about his hometown, with a particular focus on the class politics of the built environment. In Balzacâs Paris he revisits... Read more »
Amid the sunshine and wild celebrations of Friday 25 August 1944, the day the Germans surrendered control of Paris, Charles de Gaulle declared the city to have been âliberated by itselfâ, with... Read more »
A handwritten manuscript of the classic French novel LâÃtranger by Albert Camus has sold for more than â¬650,000 (£553,000) at auction, despite bafflement over the reasons for which the Nobel prize-winning author... Read more »
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. Confined to my small Brooklyn apartment, I often dream about Paris, about walking for hours... Read more »