February 2025

"I learned nobody's really special. None of us. And the sooner you get over that discovery, the better off you are." That's from EJ Levy's Love, In Theory. Parc de la Villette, Canal de l'Ourcq features L'Eau qui dort by Michael Pinsky. Flowers scattered across...

"As author of their reading, the reader is this powerful creator who births meaning, while that meaning integrates their voice into the universe. Their narration adds a chapter to the great book of humanity, to its memory, its dignity." Illiteracy is a word that must...

"Admiration kills us too, it resembles murder too much when it cleaves us in two forever, body on one side, mind on the other, with an axe." Claire, 48 and a university professor, has been hospitalized for months following romantic trauma. She tells her story...

"For a long time I obsessed over finding the link between real and fictional, lived and written, light and shadow." Invited to Veracruz to deliver lectures on Proust—which he ironically titled "Proust Annoys Me"—the narrator finds himself drawn into the city's haunted history and layered narratives...