French Literature

The French Connection Between Old Books and Current Events

Dave Astor | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: France, Women's Rights, 19th-Century French Literature, French Novels, French Literature, Racism, Big Box Stores, Occupy Wall Street, Economic Inequality, Feminism, Sexuality, Realism, Books News
Dave Astor

Nineteenth-century French novels have a lot to say about our 21st-century world. And I'm not just talking about Jules Verne books that predicted some of today's technological advances.

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A Literary Outlaw in Paris: Interview With Dennis Cooper

Brian Joseph Davis | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Meta Fiction, Dennis Cooper, French Literature, Los Angeles Authors, The Marbled Swarm, LGBT Authors, Books News
Brian Joseph Davis

Dennis Cooper's fiction has always been unshakable, with every spare word counting -- and bruising -- but his new novel The Marbled Swarm pushes a lush complexity to the front of the work.

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Review: Rimbaud in Java, The Lost Voyage

Jan McGirk | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Arthur Rimbaud, Homosexuality, Antihero, Indonesia, Military Justice, French Literature, Rambo, Gay Icons, Fugitive, Bali, Jamie James, Java, Stallone, Ubud-Writers--Readers-Festival, Orientalism, Child Prodigies, Absinthe, Poets, Rimbaud in Java, Opium, The Green Fairy, Hashish, Cannabis, Books News
Jan McGirk

Equal parts lit crit, biography, linguistic anthropology and social history, Rimbaud in Java: The Lost Voyage examines the remaining mysteries about Arthur Rimbaud as a fugitive from justice.

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A Eulogy for One of the Greatest French Journalists

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mallarme, French Literature, Bernard Henri Levy, Marie Billetdoux, Marie-Raphaëlle Billetdoux, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

What remains of a writer's life? What is worth preserving? At the very end or, even before that, at mid-life, when the end looms into view, what should be kept for the record?

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