Free Movies The Oneida Public Library will show two movies this week, "Joyeux Noel" on Monday, Dec. 10, at 1 p.m., and "Home Alone" on Wednesday, Dec....
Nicolas Mathieu has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt Prize, for “Leurs Enfants Après Eux” (“Their Children After Them”), a portrait of teenagers growing up in...
The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has withdrawn from Sweden’s alternative to the Nobel prize for literature, citing a wish to concentrate on his writing. Established in the wake of...
French booksellers have called on literary judges to “defend books and not those who threaten them”, after one of France’s most prestigious prizes selected a self-published novel...
In the 1950s the publisher and bookseller John Calder, who has died aged 91, introduced a British readership to some of the best writing from Europe, including...
Decorated with a Legion of Honour, showered with French awards, American writer Philip Roth, who died Wednesday, was the object of great admiration in French literary circles....
In March 1896, Marcel Proust sat down to compose a letter to his first love and secret passion, the celebrated composer Reynaldo Hahn. The pair were the cultural beacons...
One of the last small trades unique to Paris, the Seine-side bouquinistes’ iconic green stalls are said to make up the “world’s largest open-air bookshop”. But as...
Choose this book if you wonder about private motives in wars. Why would someone voluntarily go to a war zone? I suggest this because in Elliot Ackerman's...