The Goethe Institut has launched a month-long (14th March - 17th April) series of events entitled Europe Actually, focusing on the...

‘Animalia is a book about sex and violence, but it has unusual sobriety, and a story with a deep pull. The way it senses the natural...

The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2019 prize, which celebrates...

The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2019 prize, which celebrates...

Philosopher and professor of classical literature Jean Starobinski has passed away on the 4th of March. Born in 1920, the son of Jewish...

New research commissioned by the Man Booker Internation Prize from Nielsen Books shows translated fiction continues to grow, as they...

'A 1988 bestseller hailed for its frank descriptions of female sexual desire’ —Variety Magazine ‘A leading French feminist and writer,...

"From now on, I will be home; the walls, the floorboards and the ceilings will be mine; I will be an owner, a landlord, such a sacred...

"In Happening, Ernaux marches her army toward memory, the memory of an abortion she had in 1963." - Susan Salter Reynolds, The LA Times...

"Artaud’s writing becomes a suspension of the present. Like the notebook, it is the blueprint for an apocalyptic form of expression that...

“Fascinating . . . Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood–the idea that you can have it all or should at least die...

As you know, the Book office loves when French books are translated into English, so we are very proud to announce the list of books...

"Dark, deep and cerebral, but the danger will almost stop your heart"— Sunday Times Crime Club The latest novel in Bernard Minier's...

"Latour's most important contribution to current debates may be his untimely insistence on the importance of thinking universally in a...

Returning from the Angoulême International Comics Festival, The BDL carefully selected a few French comic books soon-to-be released – or...

"Hear Our Defeats is a grand poem, a crazy and wise book. Crazy because the reader gets carried away by all the voices and some unknown...

‘A most important book on the history of Jews in Vichy France. This meticulously researched work  is already standard reading in the...

January 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's feminist and existentialist book The Second Sex (Le...

"A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster. It seems designed single-mindedly to remind us that,...