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Mali's "mysterious city" welcomes a new class of students trained in looking after ancient books. From conservation to digitization of these works, a colossal task awaits them to preserve this endangered heritage and the secrets they contain. ....
Fully 16 years after The Road, an 89-year-old Cormac McCarthy has published two new companion novels, likely to be his last, in two months: The Passenger and Stella Maris. The very first sentence of The Passenger tells us that McCarthy is back: “It had snowed lightly in the night and her frozen hair was gold and crystalline and her eyes were frozen cold and hard as stone.” Death comes packaged in one of those commaless, conveyor-belt sentences. It is very much trademark McCarthy. But the register isn’t that of Blood Meridian or No Country for Old Men. In those previous works, there were beheadings, castrations, lynchings. In his new novels, characters die in seemlier ways: either offstage or in the silent, snow-covered woods. Has McCarthy gone soft in old age? ....
Isabelle Regner, professor of social psychology and head of the Cognition and Social Neuroscience team at the Cognitive Psychology laboratory UMR CNRS 7290, will speak on Thursday 15 December at the Polaris Colloquium. Her presentation will focus on the influence of gender stereotypes on cognitive performance and recruitment decisions. Meeting from 2 to 3.30 pm in the amphitheatre of Ircica in Villeneuve d'Ascq. ....