Gérard de Nerval knocked over a folding screen in Vienna and revealed that social decorum is just a shared stage set
Gérard de Nerval lived from 1808 to 1855, but it is worth setting aside…
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An ordinary love would have ended in forgetting, but ordinary loves do not need a museum to prove they existed
Some novels begin as one thing and end up being another. They present themselves…
In 1886, Tolstoy Described a Man Who Did Everything Right and Never Really Lived. Today That Man Has a Hundred Million Followers
There are books that age and books that wait. The Death of Ivan Ilyich,…
What Happens When the Publisher Refuses: Bolloré and the End of Editorial Independence in France
In April 2026, Olivier Nora was dismissed from Grasset after 26 years as director.…
The fury governing our world was already in the Iliad, and Homer knew how it ends
Homer wrote the Iliad nearly three thousand years ago. The first word of the…
The Autumn of the Patriarch: How to Read Trump, Bukele and Orbán with a 1975 Novel
The Autumn of the Patriarch, published in 1975, does not narrate a dictatorship. It…
Varlam Shalamov and the Model the Twenty-First Century Inherited from the Gulag
Varlam Shalamov spent fourteen years in the camps of Kolyma, in the far north-east…