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 →
Nicaragua: « The Country Under My Skin » by Gioconda Belli, « The Jaguar Smile » by Salman Rushdie and Muchacho by Emmanuel Lepage. : The taste for poetry runs deep in Nicaragua, a country where the harshness of volcanoes is softened by the water of lakes. On our recent trip to León, we visited Continue Reading →

Month: March 2019

Oxford: « The Jewel That Was Ours” by Colin Dexter, “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh, and « The Last Enchantments » by Charles Finch.

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I often travel to Oxford for an academic conference and I take this opportunity to visit some of the colleges. Saint Catherine’s, where the conference is organized and where I Continue Reading →