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Christmas is coming, ready or not. Unlike my childhood when I started the countdown around Labor Day, the Christmas spirit wafts in slowly these days. I will get there. It

Nineteen days and counting. Christmas is coming, ready or not. Unlike my childhood when I started the countdown around Labor Day, the Christmas spirit wafts in slowly these days. I

French novelist Annie Ernaux fashions a new kind of auto-fiction. Film review by Helen Hawkins

IN THE WINTER OF 1972, around the time Manhattan gallerygoers were immersing themselves in Memory—a sprawling installation comprising over a thousand tiled photographs and several hours of tape-recorded text amassed by the American poet Bernadette Mayer—the French writer of memory Annie Ernaux and her then-husband, Philippe, bought a Bell and Howell Super 8 camera. Mayer, who died this year and who in life seemed ahead of the future, once imagined “a computer or device that could record e...

In this wistful movie, the French writer and Nobel laureate revisits her life with help from her son, who’s also the director.