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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.

”The judge stares at the tattoo poking out from beneath my sleeve.”

Leïla Slimani, winner of France’s Goncourt Prize, describes her Paris and recommends books that reveal hidden facets of the city.

In 2020, far from her own family in England, Laura Stevens observed an extended French family learning to live together amidst the pandemic.

Villa Albertine: A new cultural institution reinvents artists residencies across the United States Villa Albertine headquarters. Photo: © John Bartelstone. PARIS .- Welcoming more than 60 artists and thinkers for its inaugural season, this new French cultural institution in the U.S. is reinventing the traditional French residency model seen in the Villa Medici by hosting residents in 10 major American cities and exploring intersections between culture and the urgent questions of our time. Als...