“The Passengers of the Rain”: sadness and deep rage in Bordeaux
It’s snowing on Bordeaux in Marie NDiaye’s new novel, revenge is mine. It’s raining at Hervé Le Corre, Bordeaux is soaked, drowned, with, but rarely, … Read more
Black novel
Dolores Redondo returns home
Dolores Redondo didn’t know yet that it was going to be Dolores Redondo. The young woman from Donostia who published her first novel, ‘Los privilegios … Read more
Revenge according to PD James
Phyllis Dorothy James, like Boris Vian, Clarice Lispector and Gabrielle Wittkop would have been 100 this year, if she had not died in 2014. To … Read more
In the hell of Vukovar – Culture / Next
The war in the former Yugoslavia is one of those conflicts whose horrors remain vivid in our memories, a crying example of the ease with … Read more
With Eric Forbes, no Amqui vive
For those who don’t know, Amqui is a city in Quebec, whose name would mean “Place of fun and pleasure”, which seems hard to believe … Read more
“The things we say, the things we do”, “Antoinette in the Cévennes” … Films to see (or not) at the cinema this week
Cinema outings. What are the films not to miss this week? To help you in your choice, discover the reviews of the culture department of … Read more
“Don’t look back”, interlacing of black signs
There are films that no vision exhausts. Whatever the ending and the stale suspense, their richness is such that they seem to have been made … Read more
The red, the black and the darkness
The hero of this very very dark novel is not a hero and yet he is out of the ordinary. Cyrus Colfer grew up in … Read more
“The Macau Club”, the bastards and the specters of the colonies
For this black novel against a background of pedophilia, the Portuguese Pedro Garcia Rosado was inspired by a case that shook his country in 2002, … Read more
Death of Freddy Michalski, great translator of the Anglo-Saxon black novel
Oh, shit, Freddy. It was Chantal Pelletier who told me the news. We were talking about the Covid, our conditioned freedoms, our leaden minds, the … Read more