Constance Debr News Today

With new titles being released by Philippa Snow, Olga Tokarczuk, Constance Debré and more, here are ten books to add to your reading list over the summer months

The teacher turned novelist on building a good yarn, leaving London for Lisbon, and what his former pupils might think of his sex scenes

VIRGO SEASON’S COME AND GONE, the season of people who tighten their belts and straighten their backs, a time characterized by a destructive willingness to exert oneself without being able to answer the question, Why?

When Heidi Julavits bought a secondhand copy of “A Cruising Guide to the New England Coast,” which she’d read regularly growing up, the book inspired the author to construct navigational maps for life. The result is “Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years,” which charts the rough waters of motherhood, gender, and feminism now.

For our Spring 2023 issue, literary legend and cultural hellraiser Gary Indiana got on the line with fellow writer Chris Kraus.

A divorced lesbian fights for access to her son in this sinewy French autofictional novella

She was a successful defence barrister from a grand French family. Then she came out, and found herself in a fierce custody battle. As she publishes her first book in English, the author talks about motherhood, love and attitudes to gay life

We asked our critics to pick their top books of 2022. Jessica Ferri's five favorites reframe mental illness, school shootings, aging and motherhood.

From the reissue of MFK Fisher’s 1949 food classic An Alphabet for Gourmets to Darryl Pinckney’s account of the New York literary world; here are the best books to curl up with as the days get shorter

You can build a compact, power-packed little library of books translated for the first time into English and released by Semiotext(e) this fall or in recent years. Each work seems to touch the vast cosmos of French arts and letters.