About “Literature

City of revolution

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), Purple, May 22, 2020

Does Paris have a distinctive spirit of protest and revolution? Is BHL's vision of Paris as literary as it is political?

Public Enemies

Tim Souster, Financial Times, February 07, 2011

In "Public enemies" both write best about their professional enthusiasms: Houellebecq on writing; Lévy on philosophy.

The Genius of Literature

Paul Berman, Tablet, May 16, 2017

Bernard-Henri Lévy draws from the well of late-18th-century French philosopher Chateaubriand for a broad defense of the aesthetics and morals of liberalism.

Farewell to Claude Lanzmann

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, July 12, 2018

Like Orpheus, Lanzmann was an untamed poet for whom the verses were steel rails, birch forests, silences, names.

‘East West Street,’ by Philippe Sands

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The New York Times, May 23, 2016

Philippe Sands, a professor of law at University College London, recounts the life and work of Hersch Lauterpacht for the concept of the crime against humanity and Raphael Lemkin for that of genocide, in “East West Street: On the Origins of ‘Genocide’ and ‘Crimes Against Humanity.’ ”

Wi-Fi on Planes? A ‘Disaster,’ Says Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy (interview), The New York Times, March 23, 2019

For a new one-man show, the French philosopher is traveling to 22 European cities this year. All he needs are books, white shirts and his current manuscript. No internet, please.

Writing the War

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, November 16, 2022

Elliot Ackerman’s latest book about the fall of Kabul establishes him as a master of his genre.

The Immortal Salman Rushdie

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Atlantic, August 17, 2022

The attack was an outrage not only against a great and brave author but against truth and beauty themselves. It must have a ringing response.

Salman Rushdie felt his ‘life was very normal again’ prior to stabbing

Ash Obel, The Times of Israel, August 14, 2022

'That’s all a long time ago,' author said of Iranian fatwa calling for his death during interview 2 weeks before he was seriously injured in attack.


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