Book Reviews
- J. Keith Atkinson: A Primer of Romance Philology
A beginner's guide to the Romance languages of medieval France and Spain
- Marcel Aymé: The Man Who Walked through Walls
- surreal realist short stories from 1943 France
- Marcel Berger: Geometry Revealed**
A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry
- Yves Bonnefoy: Mythologies
- classical, Egyptian, European, Asian, American, African
- Patrice Bourdelais: Epidemics Laid Low
- a history of public health responses in Western Europe
- Fernand Braudel: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century**
- a social and economic history of the shaping of the modern world
- Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean*
And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
- Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery: Indochina
An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954
- Patrick Chamoiseau: Solibo Magnificent*
- murder and/of/by language in Martinique
- Claude Combes: The Art of Being a Parasite
- explorations in evolutionary biology and ecology
- Vincent Courtillot: Evolutionary Catastrophes
The Science of Mass Extinctions
- Georges Duby: The Legend of Bouvines
- the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
- Jean Dutourd: A Dog's Head
- John DuVal, Raymond Eichmann: Cuckolds, Clerics, and Countrymen
Medieval French Fabliaux
- Ivar Ekeland: The Broken Dice
And Other Mathematical Tales of Chance
- François-Xavier Fauvelle: The Golden Rhinoceros
Histories of the African Middle Ages
- Marc Ferro: The Great War
- with a focus on the socialist movements
- Paul Fournel: Dear Reader
- an old-fashioned publisher faces change
- Jean Giono: To the Slaughterhouse
- a Provençal village in the Great War
- Faïza Guène: Bar Balto
- murder and everyday life in a Parisian banlieu
- Bernard Guenée: Between Church and State*
The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages
- Tahar ben Jelloun: This Blinding Absence of Light*
- surviving incarceration in a secret Moroccan prison
- Francis Joannès: The Age of Empires*
Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC
- Yasmina Khadra: Dead Man's Share
- dark secrets from the Algerian War of Independence
- Ahmadou Kourouma: Allah is Not Obliged
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
- Ahmadou Kourouma: The Suns of Independence*
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa
- Ahmadou Kourouma: Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote**
- the life story of an African dictator
- Eric Lambin: The Middle Path
Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Raw and the Cooked
Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 1
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: The View from Afar
- essays and talks on topics anthropological
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: Totemism
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes Tropiques
- travels in Brazil: "I hate travelling and explorers"
- André Lévy: Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical*
- an overview, with extracts, in just 150 pages
- John D. Lyons: French Literature
A Very Short Introduction
- Amin Maalouf: Balthasar's Odyssey
- a novel of signs and portents in the year 1666
- Amin Maalouf: Ports of Call
- family, love and war, in France and the Middle East
- Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie: Oulipo Compendium**
- people, works, and forms, with extensive examples
- Jean-Pierre Mohen: Standing Stones
Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths
- Jacques Monod: Chance and Necessity
An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
- Scholastique Mukasonga: Our Lady of the Nile
- racial tensions mount in a Rwandan girls' school
- Irène Némirovsky: Suite Française
- a novel of France in 1940-1941
- Gérard de Nerval: The Salt Smugglers
- a French serial novel from 1850
- François Neveux: A Brief History of the Normans
The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
- Amélie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling
- a comic tale about working for a Japanese corporation
- Amélie Nothomb: Loving Sabotage*
- a tale of childhood love and war
- Zoé Oldenbourg: Massacre at Montségur
- the Albigensian crusade; Simon de Montfort; the destruction of Catharism
- Daniel Pennac: Reads Like a Novel*
- teaching and learning a love of reading
- Daniel Pennac: The Scapegoat
- crime fiction set in the Belleville quarter of Paris
- Georges Perec: A Void*
- a lipogram, a novel written without using the letter e
- Georges Perec: Three
Which Moped? The Exeter Text. A Gallery Portrait.
- Georges Perec: Winter Journeys
- an inventive Oulipian medley
- Serge Pey: The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War
- powerful stories of childhood and exile
- Jacques Poulin: Autumn Rounds
- an exceptionally gentle novel, a quiet romance
- Mark Rappolt: Georges Perec and Paris*
- criticism, poetry, fiction, architecture, photography
- Yasmina Reza: Hammerklavier
- a pointillist rumination on music, mortality and memory
- Jean Rouaud: Fields of Glory
- a novel of old age, memory, and the Great War
- Lydie Salvayre: The Award
- a biting satire on corporate paternalism
- Lydie Salvayre: The Company of Ghosts*
- a madwoman remembering Vichy; her teenage daughter; a process-server
- Lydie Salvayre: The Lecture
- a comic extravaganza of a monologue
- Victor Segalen: A Lapse of Memory
- a novel about the destruction of traditional religion in Tahiti
- Victor Segalen: René Leys*
- a mystery set in Peking in 1911, at the end of Manchu China
- Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev**
- the outstanding novel of Stalin's purges
- Stendhal: The Red and the Black
A Chronicle of the 19th Century
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint: Television
- a procrastinating academic gives up watching television
- Simone Weil: On the Abolition of All Political Parties
- and Milosz on "The Importance of Simone Weil"
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This category includes all works originally written in French, regardless
of the origin or domicile of the author.