Académie Française

Emmanuel Carrère’s obsession with his mother’s duplicity borders on fanaticism

5 September 2026 9:00 am

The French writer continues to delve into painful family history and the cover-up of his grandfather’s collaboration with the Nazis

English without tears

7 March 2015 9:00 am

In a cheeringly Dickensian fashion, the names of our supposed experts on grammar imply they want to bind writers (Lynne…