A Wilderness of Salt: An American Abroad Watches US Politics
From London, where she has lived for several years, Emily Ochoa sees her country embrace a destiny she did not imagine.
Loneliness is other People
New York, 2020. She had just met Ian. For the first time in a long while, since her divorce in fact, she liked a man. Truly. The beginning of a relationship becomes complicated when Ian, having gone to China, finds himself confined there.
The Wall In Our Eyes
There are walls we can't see, invisible walls that draw lines in our minds. Walid discovers them on vacation on the beaches of Zeralda, where the horizon seems to separate Algeria and France. It's only in Mexico City, when he meets Italian Giuseppe, that these borders become blurred, revealing that identity is built on encounters and memories, far beyond the lines drawn on a map.
Unheard Minds: Neglecting the Mad
Helene had the conviction that what causes the most suffering for these patients is not the voices and hallucinations that make them feel detached from common reality, but rather their sense of isolation.
All the languages I speak belong to me
Diadié is often asked if, in the near future, he plans to write entire novels in Soninke or Bambara. A question that puzzles him. And what if French was not just a language of writing after all?
Lost Love is a Solitary Exile
What happens when from one day to the next, we find ourselves exiled from a city or a person, unable to go back to the place where we were happiest?
Paris... Come Home to My Dreams
One minute. Just one hot minute more and I’d have missed that flight to Paris, which would have altered the course of my life.
Gaslighting, passion and oblivion
Maud had difficulty putting words to this toxic relationship. She spoke of "hold ". But that was before she discovered the term gaslighting
The Prison Outside
There are those people who are locked up behind bars. Deprived of freedom. And those who are locked out. Deprived of their loved one.