Hocus Bogus
January 11, 2023
Romain Gary writing as Émile Ajar— There is no beginning. I was begotten—just like you—and since then I’ve been lumbered. I tried to get out of it every way I… READ MORE
Tag: french
The Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Modern Middle East
June 16, 2016
Neil Faulkner— A hundred years on from Sykes-Picot, the Middle East is in turmoil. These two things are intimately related. Mark Sykes was a British diplomat, François Georges-Picot his French… READ MORE
The Innovative Poetry of Mallarmé
March 18, 2015
Mary Ann Caws— Happy birthday, Stéphane! Everything about Symbolism’s great poet makes him ours too. His strangeness, for example, while writing about the latest fashion using all those pseudonyms in… READ MORE
A New Audience for the World’s First Author