Ivan Turgenev | Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
Category: Literature
Anne Frank never wrote in English, yet English became her second voice. Her diary, born in hiding and pain, crossed linguistic boundaries to shape the world’s conscience. It gave English speakers a personal language for trauma, hope, and remembrance—making a Jewish girl’s words a cornerstone of moral imagination across generations.
Anne Frank – A Voice of Conscience in the English Language
I have long been a fan of Shirley Jackson’s unnerving fiction, which never fails to unsettle me. From the creeping sense of dread running through her short stories to the magical but disturbing world of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Jackson excels at stripping back the surface veneer of seemingly polite society, exposing […]
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship and Betrayal (2025, Ballentine) by Matthew Goodman. Two single women, one an American, the other a Brit living in Paris, both caught up in occupied France during the Second World War. They were part of a network getting soldiers out of France, and they paid dearly for […]
Paris Undercover (book review)
Et Francine Hamelin c’est ici on va ivre toujours vers une autre naissance dont l’origine et le sens portent les gants blancs du soleil on veut étreindre le corps d’une beauté sans appui qui est un hymne et une totalité et on se dresse tremblant comme le premier arbre le premier épi devant la brûlure […]
Portraits de la vie sauvageonne ( XVII ) et ( XVIII ) / Photos de Francine Hamelin & Textes de Barbara Auzou
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