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 […]
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 […]
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 […]