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Surface Olivier Norek Review

August 28, 2026 Guest Contributor 0

In Olivier Norek’s latest crime thriller, Surface, translated by Nick Caistor, the French author demonstrates the distinctive skill required to construct a top-notch police procedural. Genre writing demands a set pact with the reader that […]

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Twenty Minutes of Silence Hélène Bessette Review

June 18, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Kate Briggs, translator of Twenty Minutes of Silence and of Hélène Bessette’s first novel Lili is Crying, wrote in an essay for The Yale Review in September 2025: How, why, and under what material circumstances […]

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Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals Valentin Deudon Review

June 9, 2026 Ben F Comments Off

Valentin Deudon is a French poet, author and football fan, which is what makes Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals different to the usual journalistic endeavour. Instead of being yet another biography, to add to those by […]

Angst Hélène Cixous Review

March 17, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Hélène Cixous is best known in the Anglophone world for her 1976 essay The Laugh of the Medusa (Le Rire de la Méduse) — published in English one year later — in which she laid […]

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Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur Review

December 16, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Marcel Proust may have died over a century ago, but his legacy endures. Readers are still captivated by the way À la recherche du Temps Perdu redefined modern literature; by how Proust shows the drama […]

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Fractured France Andrew Hussey Review

September 8, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation is Andrew Hussey’s latest exploration of French culture and history, published by Granta Books on 11 September. A patchwork of memoir, interviews, cultural references, historic context and […]

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Liquid Reflections Liliane Lijn Review

August 31, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Liquid Reflections is a headlong dive into the coming-of-age of Liliane Lijn as an artist. The linear, raw narrative starts in Paris in 1958 where she lands from America. She is just eighteen and enrols […]

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French Cooking for One, Michèle Roberts Review

June 7, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Another book about French cooking, when so many are published? But this one is a little different since Michèle Roberts is the daughter of a French mother and an English father — it is essentially […]