Frederic Mitterrand

Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever

Vivian Norris | Posted 11.09.2011

Vivian Norris

Perhaps this morality tale will cheer up a few folks who are out of work in the big city...things could be worse, you could still be working for some schmuck, dating some jerk, serving the corporate beast.

French Publisher Gallimard Planning To Sue Google

thebookseller.com | Barbara Casassus | Posted 05.25.2011

Gallimard and two other French publishers plan to sue Google for scanning books without prior permission. The move was announced at the Paris Book Fai...

Frederic Mitterrand, French Minister, Fights For Job After Boasts Of Sex With Young Boys

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

John Lichfield | The Independent The new French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, is fighting to save his brief ministerial career after opp...

France Planning Google Books Rival

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS — France's culture minister on Tuesday unveiled a plan for adapting the country's literary patrimony to the digital age by developing what...

What If We Indicted Léon Blum?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Writers who believed they were teaching us about a particular temptation, iniquity, perversion, or depravity: think twice, because they should know they will be thrown to the lions in public opinion.