The famous American writer James Baldwinwho died in December 1987 and who lived almost all his life in France, wrote a month before he died in an important newspaper in Paris: “I am black, I am also gay and my face is not pretty. I am very short in stature and my physique is small; … Read more
Published on October 21, 2022 at 10:00 am Susan Sontag: the American intellectual celebrated by a biography and an essay – ©Science History Images / Alamy / Abaca A bio and an essay celebrate this caustic figure in American intellectual life. Very intelligent, endearing, exasperating and discouraging as she was intransigent; friendly, brittle and constantly … Read more
In “Sontag – His Life and Work”, a monstrous biography retracing the life and work of this intellectual figure – who deciphered the 20th century while marking it in depth -, Benjamin Moser dwells on the impact of one of his essays, published in 1964. One evening in February 1965, Susan Sontag is dining at … Read more
Gustavo Borges Mexico City, July 31. At 65, the Mexican writer Juan Villoro interprets the good acceptance of his children’s novels starring Professor Zíper as a sign that perhaps his true intellectual age is that of a teenager. “Professor Zíper’s books have made me approach a wider audience than my adult books, which probably reveals … Read more
I was born on March 31, 1914, the year in which the first great war broke out and, in Mexico, the year of the North American occupation of Veracruz, the fall of Huerta and the great division of the triumphant revolutionaries”, said Octavio himself Peace in “The poet in his land“, the conversations with Braulio … Read more
His name is almost unknown to the community of scholars and the general public on this side of the Atlantic. No doubt his fame is not much greater in his own country, where one has a better chance of making himself known by tweeting than by glossing and of being elected by bewitching the masses … Read more
Sarah Hébert-Tremblay and Johanne Auger, the authors. Source: BCF website The non-fungible tokens (NFTs), or non-fungible tokens in French, are more and more talked about. This technology, which enables the sale and purchase of digital objects, is, for now, mainly popular in the arts and entertainment fields, but could certainly spread to other fields in … Read more
His name is almost unknown to the scholarly community and the general public on this side of the Atlantic. His fame is undoubtedly not much greater in his own country, where one has a better chance of making oneself known by tweeting than by glossing and of being elected by smoldering the masses than by … Read more