Note to readers: You may choose to read this analysis of Émile Zola‘s Germinal here or listen to it on the audio file at the end of the article. As a companion to last week’s discussion of Gustave Flaubert’s famous … Read More
Note to readers: You may choose to read this analysis of Gustave Flaubert‘s Madame Bovary here or listen to it on the audio file at the end of the article. I suspect that Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 novel Madame Bovary is … Read More
Note to readers: You may choose to read this review of Philippe Besson’s Arrête avec Tes Mensonges (Lie with Me) here or listen to it on the audio file at the end of the article. Over the last few weeks, I … Read More
Paris-based journalist and documentary filmmaker Stefania Rousselle was feeling overwhelmed by the distressing reportages she had been working on for the American media, on sex trafficking, unemployment, the rise of extremism and the terrorist attacks in Paris (to one of … Read More
