Anka Muhlstein

Balzac at Table

A luminous essay of “literary gastronomy” for food lovers as well as for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century novel

Arlette Farge

Effusiveness and Torment, The Body as Narrator A History of the People in Eighteenth-Century France

Daniel Sibony

Marrakech, Departure Point

During a weekend trip to Marrakech — his hometown — a novelist has a love affair that becomes intertwined with reminiscences of his childhood.

René Frydman, Muriel Flis-Trèves

What Do Men Dream Of?

Jacques Barillon, Paul Bensussan

The New Code on Sexuality

Laurent Danon-Boileau

The Child Who Wouldn’t Speak New Edition

Marc Abélès

The New Rich An Anthropologist in Silicon Valley

Yves Christen

Are Animals Philosophers? Kantian Chickens and Aristotelian Bonobos

Because animals, both human and non-human, are not the passive toys of the surrounding world but, on the contrary, active creators and because they are carriers of weltanschauung, I regard them as philosophers.