Does Paris have a distinctive spirit of protest and revolution? Is BHL's vision of Paris as literary as it is political?
In "Public enemies" both write best about their professional enthusiasms: Houellebecq on writing; Lévy on philosophy.
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.
Like Orpheus, Lanzmann was an untamed poet for whom the verses were steel rails, birch forests, silences, names.
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.’ ”
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.
Elliot Ackerman’s latest book about the fall of Kabul establishes him as a master of his genre.
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.
'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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