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Grand reporter pour Le Soir, Colette Braeckman arpente la planète dès les premières années de sa carrière de journaliste. Les reportages se succèdent, Amérique latine, Asie du Sud-Est, Portugal, Corne de l’Afrique... Puis dans les années 80, elle se concentre sur le pays dont elle rêvait depuis l’enfance : le Congo devenu Zaïre, l’ancienne colonie des Belges. Elle y couvre les dernières années du régime Mobutu, l’arrivée au pouvoir des Kabila père puis fils, les guerres successives et les drames humanitaires.

Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities, and teaching - and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting - ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep Lesbos for the lesbians. Did St. Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh?

An anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of “home.” “Bold and devastating . . . the very definition of reclamation.” —The International Examiner Asian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong. “The notion of home has always been elusive.

"Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom." -Los Angeles Times. From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes a rich and revealing work of nonfiction capturing the life and mind of an artist as she knits together the dual themes of coming to America and becoming a writer.

Simone de Beauvoir a marqué le XXe siècle, et singulièrement les femmes, par les livres qu'elle a écrits. Depuis l'adolescence, en effet, le désir d'être un grand écrivain a orienté sa vie. Mais elle est au moins aussi exemplaire par le couple qu'elle a formé avec Jean-Paul Sartre : couple amoureux, couple inventant de nouvelles formes familiales, morales et sociales, couple engagé dans l'histoire française et internationale, offrant l'image d'intellectuels impliqués dans les combats de l'époque.

In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive.

A career-spanning collection of essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English. Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke’s forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay.

On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core and revealed fault lines in a fractious newsroom that was already close to open revolt.

Kagerō Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses.

« Chère Véronique, Ton coup de téléphone m’a enchantée. Figure-toi que je rentrais juste à 5h30 du matin, sur la pointe des pieds lorsque le téléphone a sonné. Comme il est dans ma chambre, j’ai pensé que mon père allait arriver et, me voyant tout habillée, m’engueuler. Aussi, me suis-je jetée tout habillée avec mon manteau sous les draps et les draps sur le nez ; j’ai parlé à mon père. Après je t’ai parlé et me suis relevée en riant aux éclats, déshabillée et recouchée. Quand rentres-tu ?