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Art Imitates Life: Who Was the Real Woman Behind André Breton’s Nadja?

All or Nothing: Deborah Levy on Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

Was Françoise Sagan the original brat?

How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

“Something More Bare and More Raw Than a Man.” Constance Debré on Learning to Love Women

What Albert Camus’s The Stranger Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

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Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation)

Trauma Spoken and Unspoken: How Francophone Women Writers Tackle Sexual Violence

Rachel Careau on How Translating Roger Lewinter Helped Her Translate Colette

Vive the erotic far left! Why Violette Leduc’s The Taxi needs a new translation.

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