Aleppo, Syria: « Death is Hard Work » and « No One Prayed Over Their Graves » by Khaled Khalifa : Syria has been embroiled in civil war for more than ten years and has yet to emerge from it. Although fighting has subsided since 2020, the country remains divided, and Continue Reading →
Marseille: « The Count of Monte-Cristo » by Alexandre Dumas and « Total Chaos » by Jean-Claude Izzo : At the end of June in Marseille, you had to get up early to enjoy a bit of fresh air. I left my hotel, located just opposite the Palais du Continue Reading →
Montreal: “The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant » by Michel Tremblay, « How to Make Love with a Negro Without Getting Tired » by Dany Laferrière and « Suzanne » by Leonard Cohen : We set off from our hotel on Philipps Square towards McGill University. After an initial exploration of the campus, we climbed the stairs to the viewpoint in front of the Continue Reading →
Mount Sinai: The Bible : When I arrived at the summit of Mount Sinai last May, I felt as if I were honoring an appointment missed over thirty years ago. In 1992, we had planned Continue Reading →

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Val d’Hérens, Valais, Switzerland: “Terror on the Mountain » and « Farinet ou la Fausse Monnaie » by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and « Lost in the Alps » by Cosey.

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Dare I confess to you one of my adolescent dreams? Her name is Evolena and, in Cosey’s comic strip “Lost in the Alps (A la recherche de Peter Pan)”, she’s Continue Reading →