The Flaneur of Paris was published in the year of Apollinaire's death. More than a century later,...

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Mael Renouard's historical and aesthetical contemplation on the Lascaux Cave enlivens a conceptua...

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In this dreamlike novella, in the bewitching melancholy of nocturnal India, an art dealer pursues...

The tragic conscience of modern China's most revered critic-translator is portrayed in this biogr...

In his memoirs, which he finished writing in 1942, Stefan Zweig recalled the first days of the wa...

In 1931, Hu Shih was turning forty, and began writing his autobiography. In a language simple and...

In this exquisite collection of essays by Mael Renouard, Paris past and present, in remembrance a...

From Socrates, Confucius and Cicero, to Petrarch, Emilie du Chatelet, Nietzsche and hundreds more...

Notched is translated from Jacques Dupin's mesmerising Echancre (P.O.L, 1991). Jacques Dupin was ...

Party Time is translated from Un temps de fete (La Table Ronde, 2024). Guillaume Decourt is a dou...

The Assassins of Confucius was published by Hermits United in 2023. This 2025 edition includes a ...

Hours. Landscapes. Seasons. Life. A musical meditation in poetic prose. Happy the Hours (Les Heur...

Yves Nedonsel was a poet of time and out of keeping with his time. Appeasements is the first sele...

Le 8 juin 1876, George Sand mourut. Le 2 juillet, Hippolyte Taine adressa une lettre au directeur...

Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in Shishuo Xi...

On 18 April 1776, shortly before his death, David Hume recounted his life as one lived, by choice...

For two millennia, Qu Yuan has been honoured as the first Romantic poet in East Asia. During the ...

Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in Shishuo Xi...

On 19 May 1840, Thomas Carlyle wrote Lecture V of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in Hist...

En 1894, Gabriel Monod publia Les Maitres de l'histoire. Selon l'historien, pour Michelet, ' Opti...

When the pianist Fou Ts'ong passed away in London in December 2020, his friend of 58 years, the d...

En 1865, Napoleon III publia son premier tome de L'Histoire de Jules Cesar ; il fit livrer un exe...