• 16 April 2023

    How can I survive that kiss?

    Parent-child relationships are complex and never more so than when the roles become reversed. Annie Ernaux presents the sparse truth in I Remain in Da...
  • 24 April 2022

    Love and power

    Irreverent, funny story that reminded me of my own mother, who dabbled in astrology and tarot cards before becoming fanatically religious with a hotli...
  • The Order of the Day Eric Vuillard
    23 February 2022

    Truth is scattered into many kinds of du...

    Written with devastating and biting honesty, the brevity and precision of this French ‘récit’, which is filled with moments of irony, far...
  • 28 December 2021

    Barely digestible

    Imagine Monica from Friends reaching her late 30s and neurotically not wanting to free herself from an abusive relationship: wife leaves husband when ...
  • The Inspeparables Simone de Beauvoir
    16 September 2021

    The Inseparables

    With unsurprising spoiler Censored in its day, the coming-of-age novella by France’s most significant 20th century feminist, Simone de Beauvoir, now...

How can I survive that kiss?

Parent-child relationships are complex and never more so than when the roles become reversed. Annie Ernaux presents the sparse truth in I Remain in Darkness. The thoughts she wrote down…

Love and power

Irreverent, funny story that reminded me of my own mother, who dabbled in astrology and tarot cards before becoming fanatically religious with a hotline to God almighty who bestowed upon…

The Order of the Day Eric Vuillard

Truth is scattered into many kinds of dust

Written with devastating and biting honesty, the brevity and precision of this French ‘récit’, which is filled with moments of irony, farce and anecdote against the backdrop of the Third…

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