David Bellos

Georges Perec’s Lost Novel

Georges Perec’s Lost Novel

I knew that I had in my hands the revelation of the tangled roots of Perec’s later creation and of the masterwork that crowns it. It was connected by a hundred threads to every part of the literary universe that Perec went on to create—but not like anything else that he wrote.

April 8, 2015

Haitians on Haiti

November 3, 1994 issue

The Umbrella, the Night World, and the Lonely Moon

The Umbrella, the Night World, and the Lonely Moon

Chronique des Sept Misères

by Patrick Chamoiseau

Solibo Magnifique

by Patrick Chamoiseau

Eros dans un train chinois

by René Depestre

Hadriana dans tous mes rêves

by René Depestre

Alléluia pour une femme-jardin

by René Depestre

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December 19, 1991 issue

Rousseau in the Revolution

Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution

by Carol Blum

A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution

edited by François Furet, edited by Mona Ozouf

La Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen

by Stéphane Rials

L'An I des droits de l'homme

by A de Baecque and L.M. Vovelle and W. Schmale

Les Déclarations des droits de l'homme et du citoyen

by Christine Fauré

The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, Volume II: The Political Culture of the Revolution

edited by Colin Lucas

La Révolution des droits de l'homme

by Marcel Gauchet

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April 12, 1990 issue

The Passions of Tocqueville

The Passions of Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society

edited by Roger Boesche, translated by James Toupin and Roger Boesche

June 27, 1985 issue

A Long-Suppressed Episode

The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

by Leo Steinberg

November 22, 1984 issue

The Novel and Europe

July 19, 1984 issue

Double Trouble

The Return of Martin Guerre

by Natalie Zemon Davis

December 22, 1983 issue

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