Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Neige Sinno’s Triste Tigre is not a book one simply reads; it is a book one survives. Written with a rare blend of lucidity and anguish, this hybrid of memoir and essay examines the lifelong impact of sexual abuse […]
Pauline Harmange’s brief manifesto is not a coy thought experiment. It is a full-throated argument for misandry as a political position and as a psychic exit ramp from a world structured by male power. The title promises heat and the essay delivers, […]
In The Hour of the Predator (L’heure des prédateurs), Giuliano da Empoli delivers a haunting exploration of modern power. Blending political insight with a sharp, almost cinematic narrative style, the author exposes how today’s global stage is dominated not by institutions or […]
Édouard Louis returns once again to the terrain of his own life and family with Monique s’évade (Monique Escapes), a slim yet deeply emotional book that continues his exploration of class, trauma, and the bonds between mother and son. Known for turning […]
Joël Dicker returns to his native Switzerland with a glittering, snowbound puzzle set in the Palace de Verbier, a luxury hotel tucked high in the Alps. One December morning, a body is discovered on the carpet of Room 622. The case fizzles […]
In Murder Takes a Vacation, bestselling author Laura Lippman delivers a mystery that is both cozy and cosmopolitan, blending gentle humor, reflective themes, and a dash of danger aboard a scenic river cruise through France. Featuring Muriel Blossom a widow, grandmother, and […]
Joël Dicker, best known for his intricate literary thrillers like The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair and The Baltimore Boys, takes a completely unexpected turn with The Very Catastrophic Visit to the Zoo (La muy catastrófica visita al zoo). This charming, […]
Maud Ventura’s My Husband, translated from French by Emma Ramadan, is one of those rare novels that manage to be both hilariously absurd and psychologically unnerving. Winner of France’s First Novel Prize in 2021, it invites readers inside the spiraling mind of […]
Édouard Louis’s brief, blazing portrait of his mother is both elegy and emancipation narrative. In fewer than a hundred pages he traces a life hemmed in by class and by men, then records the moment at forty five when that life breaks […]
Édouard Louis returns with a blistering, intimate work that reads like a reckoning. L’Effondrement is the story of an older brother who dreamed past the borders of his class and the narrow futures available to him, and of the slow collapse that […]