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“More Nirvana than Mao” is a phrase Aurélien Masson likes to use to describe himself. After joining the prestigious Gallimard Editions as a “Grand lector”, he became the head of “SN”, the Série Noire, one of the oldest institutions inside Gallimard. Masson may be the youngest director NS has…

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A master of noir crime fiction, James has up close and personal knowledge of the world of crime. His life has been shadowed by a gruesome event: the unsolved murder of his mother when he was a child. In 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy’s body was dumped on a roadway…

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While he may be presented as a “New Philosopher” in France, Pascal Bruckner rejects this specific label, preferring to be seen instead as an independent, outside any groups our categories. Aside from being an awarded essayist, and winner of the Prix Médicis in 1995, for “La tentation de l’innocence”…