Umberto Eco in Michelangelo Antonioni‘s “La Notte” (1961).
21.05.2025 12:32 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
Annie Ernaux Turns Memory Into Art
Many authors write about their lives. Over nearly fifty years, the Nobel laureate has discovered new ways to do it.
For some novelists, writing is “a way of going up toward something,” Annie Ernaux said. “For me, it’s the absolute opposite. Not going underground, exactly. But into a well.” What draws her down? An idea of some kind? No: “An obsession.”
14.04.2025 17:32 — 👍 53 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
"Cortazar comparait volontiers Vargas Llosa au rhinocéros particulièrement ingérable du zoo de Buenos Aires, et le fait est que sa disparition, dimanche 13 avril à Lima à l’âge de 89 ans, marque l’extinction d’une espèce."
Par @didierjacob.bsky.social
14.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of Issue 196 of The Continent is a photograph from the Abi Morocco Photo collection featuring a Lagosian wearing sunglasses, a short-sleeved shirt and trousers and reading a copy of Newsweek. The man has one leg propped up on a chair, bent at the knee, facing the photographer. The headline reads: "The lost Lagos photos"
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 196 of The Continent
Undeveloped photo films are gathering dust in studios all over Lagos. What is on those old camera rolls?
Find out here. bit.ly/Continent196
28.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 64 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 8
Ravie de retrouver Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, pour le superbe "Inventaire des rêves" (Gallimard). Interview à retrouver demain dans le @nouvelobs.com et déjà en ligne www.nouvelobs.com/bibliobs/202...
26.03.2025 14:10 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
"Après sept cents pages, le protagoniste [du roman] n'était pas encore né, et mon éditeur a trouvé cela fastidieux"... Très belle idée du romanesque comme digression, ralentissement. Loin de servir la tension narrative, le roman comme retardement.
22.03.2025 07:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Hervé Le Tellier : « On risque d’être noyé sous les créations de l’IA »
Hervé Le Tellier, prix Goncourt 2020, commente deux textes générés par ChatGPT, « le Miroir du défunt » et « la Chatte sur un clavier brûlant », qu’il trouve « loin d’être indécent ».
"La clé, c’est de créer des bonnes formules qui vont faire réagir correctement le modèle de langage." Comment faut-il "prompter" l'IA pour obtenir un texte vraiment littéraire ? @benoitraphael.bsky.social répond après son "match" avec Hervé Le Tellier. www.nouvelobs.com/bibliobs/202...
17.03.2025 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 6
Pour la première fois, un écrivain et l'IA s'affrontent dans un match inédit : écrire un texte de fiction de 3000 signes avec une première et une dernière phrase imposées. @herveletellier.bsky.social face à #ChatGPT (piloté par @benoitraphael.bsky.social). Le score est dans @nouvelobs.com
15.03.2025 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
L'IA capable d'écrire un texte vraiment littéraire et de battre même un Prix Goncourt : ce n'est plus de la science-fiction. C'est fait. Et c'est plutôt angoissant. Toutes les explications sont dans @nouvelobs.com cette semaine.
15.03.2025 09:19 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Donate to Help Alex GET SUVs for Ukraine, organized by Carol Reisman
My name is Carol, and I opened this GoFundMe on the OK of my friend Alex Dunai, who needs… Carol Reisman needs your support for Help Alex GET SUVs for Ukraine
If you want to actually do something for #Ukraine apart from posting blue and yellow flags on your social accounts, you can donate to this GoFundMe for our dear friend Alex Dunai in L’viv, who uses these monies to purchase vehicles for the war and rescue efforts.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-alex-...
01.03.2025 13:04 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
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Désormais, une fois par an, je serai l’éditrice d’un titre au sein de la collection Fiction & Cie, dirigée par Bernard Comment, aux éditions du Seuil. Pour commencer, ce recueil de textes de jeunesse de Karen Finley, traduits par Malik Boutebal. (Première trad de Finley en France). 🦇🖤
22.02.2025 08:54 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
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Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”
The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.
In his 1962 essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” James Baldwin dissects the mentality of white Americans: “not only overt racists but the sort likely to be well-meaning readers of The New Yorker,” Kevin Young writes.
15.02.2025 18:07 — 👍 201 🔁 46 💬 4 📌 1
« J’écris l’Iliade », par Pierre Michon : Homère ! Ô Michon !
Pierre Michon n’écrit que quand ça lui chante, raison de plus pour se précipiter sur cette nouvelle œuvre ambitieuse. ★★★★★
« J’écris l’Iliade », par Pierre Michon : Homère ! Ô Michon !
Pierre Michon n’écrit que quand ça lui chante, raison de plus pour se précipiter sur cette nouvelle œuvre ambitieuse.
Par @didierjacob.bsky.social :
12.02.2025 13:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New York Authors Recommend Must-Read Books Set in the City
We asked 10 writers — including Hernan Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Casey McQuiston — to recommend books that capture their particular slice of life in New York.
Lena #Dunham sur NYC : "SoHo’s entire history is one of cyclical theft, gentrification, abandonment — rinse and repeat. Somehow, as a child, I felt all of this. It was a land unto itself, both part of Manhattan and utterly divorced from it." A lire ce we dans le NYT. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
31.01.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rebecca Yarros’s ‘Onyx Storm’ Is the Fastest-Selling Adult Novel in 20 Years
The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the romantasy genre’s staying power.
Oui, il y a un nouveau "Harry Potter". Ça s'appelle "Onyx Storm" (de Rebecca #Yarros) et en une semaine il s'en est vendu 2,7 millions d'exemplaires aux US. C'est de la romance pour adulte dans une académie de dompteurs de dragons. Et sinon il y a Jean Rolin chez POL. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
31.01.2025 07:25 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Didier Ludot, the Godfather of Vintage Fashion Says Goodbye
Didier Ludot, the godfather of vintage fashion, is closing his couture resale shop in Paris after 50 years. Yes, there is a sale.
Didier Ludot ferme. Le New York Times a récupéré les anecdotes : "Now, young people would come in and say, “Do you have Balenciaga?” and I’d say, “Yes, I have Cristóbal Balenciaga.” And they’d say, “No, the sweatshirt by Demna that reads ‘Balenciaga’ in big letters across the front.”
31.01.2025 07:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
features writer @ new york mag/vulture
just here so i don’t get fined
Art from the MoMA's Paintings and Sculpture collection.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
https://www.moma.org
Books editor at Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. Long ago founder of: http://thesecondpass.com/
The business of entertainment.
Critic @nytimes.com. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (Liveright) and SALTY (Broadleaf). Teaching writing and criticism (Whitworth MFA, NYU XE, Center for Fiction).
Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Editor, Vanity Fair's The Hive. Covered media at Politico, HuffPost, NY Observer; taught journalism at Princeton, NYU
Serving Hollywood obsessives, savvy politicos, and style aficionados.
Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/
Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.
Writer 📚 Photography 📸 Nature 🌳 Mindfulness ❤️ Buddhist 🙏 Hiker ⛰️ Cardinals Baseball ⚾️
Cornishman living in Hampshire.
New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad+ Gardening for New Yorker
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni
Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture.
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Journaliste écologie/société au Nouvel Obs / "L'hiver en Himalaya" (Glénat) / ebrouze@nouvelobs.com
Translator of Gilgamesh and Enheduana
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Co-pilotage service Culture chez Libé. Bruit informatique et vieux synthés.