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Les contes pour Leïla
Leila aimait écouter les histoires que Jean Bernard avait imaginées pour elle. Certaines lui rappelaient l'Algérie qu'elle aimait et qu'elle attendait de revoir. Jean Bernard les a rédigées, Sophie et sa fille Marguerite les ont illustrées. Skripitiki est une petite souris amoureuse. Les circonstances de la vie lui font découvrir le monde. Les droits d'auteur seront reversés à la Fondation Leïla Fodil pour venir en aide aux enfants démunis de la ville de Ségou au Mali
Les contes pour Leïla : La sauterelle jaune
Leïla, petite fille malade, reçoit la visite d'une sauterelle jaune. Celle-ci l'emmène en songe sur la lune. Au retour, en remerciement, la petite fille donne à la sauterelle jaune une couleur verte qui lui permettra d'échapper aux oiseaux.
Les contes pour Leïla (Le crocodile qui mangeait des mouches)
La ville de Saïda reçoit la visite d'un crocodile qui fait d'abord peur. Les habitants cherchent à le tuer. Mais il promet de ne pas faire de mal. Il disparaît puis revient avec son épouse qui pond des oeufs. De ces oeufs sortent des petits crocodiles qui se révèlent être des mangeurs de mouches.
All Men Want to Know
'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country. In Paris, eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her way to The Kat, a legendary gay night...
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War
The legacies service in the First World War had on women's lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
The author of The Golden Ratio tells the “lively and fascinating” story of two nineteenth-century mathematicians whose work revealed the laws of symmetry (Nature). What do Bach’s compositions, Rubik’s Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry—known as group theory—did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn’t be solved. For three centuries, the quintic equation resisted efforts by mathematicians to find a solution. Working independently, two great prodi...
My Place at the Table
In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women's Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Ar...
Site-writing
The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of 'art writing' as a fresh mode of criticism, which aims to 'put the art first'. Following this definition, "Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism" puts the sites of the critic's engagement with art first. The book puts into shape what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity enter the writing of art criticism. The sites explored are the material, emotional, political and conceptual settings of the artwork's construction, exhibition and documentation, as well as those remembered, dreamed and imagined. Through five different spatial configurations - both psychic and architectural - "Site-Writing" explores artworks by artists as diverse as Jananne Al-Ani, Elina Brotherus, Nathan Coley, Tracey Emin, Christina Iglesias and Do-Ho Suh, aiming to adapt such psychoanalytic ways of working as free association and conjectural interpretation to art criticism.
