Andrée Viollis, from the “bear pit” to major reports
Andrée Viollis (1870-1950) was as famous as Albert Londres in the interwar years. A great reporter, she traveled the world, from the USSR to Afghanistan … Read more
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Black skin, white masks in khaki green
They are three, one called and two officers, to find themselves overnight embarked in the war in Algeria, they who come from so far away, … Read more
Pro-Trump protest in Michigan: “This election is theft”
A sign inviting the outgoing president to “Clear”, smartphones unsheathed, two democratic voters, coming “Celebrate Biden’s victory” announced a few minutes earlier by the American … Read more
Pro-Trump protest in Michigan: “This election is theft”
A sign inviting the outgoing president to “Clear”, smartphones unsheathed, two democratic voters, coming “Celebrate Biden’s victory” announced a few minutes earlier by the American … Read more
“Manaus”, a spy in the jungle
A secret agent slipped into the escort accompanying General de Gaulle to Argentina, “An anonymous, among the thirty-seven subordinates of the State” chosen to accompany … Read more
Photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli, already Pulitzer 2019, awarded in Bayeux
It would take more than a pandemic, however persistent, to prevent war correspondents from meeting. Thus, throughout the past week, the 27e edition of the … Read more
“Josep”, dark destiny and black drawings
Three exhausted infantrymen advance in a snowy and bruised countryside, desolate plain and dark forest where bits of rags hanging from trees represent the wounds … Read more
Algerian war, from one maquis to another
In 1956, in eastern Kabylia, during the Algerian war, young Neïla (Sawsan Abès) fled her village scoured by French soldiers and took refuge with a … Read more
Accounts of exile from a country that no longer exists
The Algerian war has become an essential theme of literary re-entry. Time could have done its work and healed the wounds, it only left the … Read more
“Clint and me”: Eastwood, a sniper in Hollywood
Clint and him? “It’s a long story that he doesn’t even realize.” So necessarily, “I love Clint more than he loves me”, classic asymmetry. Is … Read more