Laeticia atLani-DuauLt is a Research Professor in Social Anthropology at the French National Development Research Institute and a member of the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative

Sociology at the CNRS. Atlani-Duault teaches at the EHESS and Paris 1 Sorbonne. She is a visiting professor at Hunter College and a Visiting Research Fellow at CUNY Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. She is co-editor-in-chief of Socio, and the editor of the book series Le (bien) commun.

Jean BourgauLt has been a member of the editorial committee of LeS tempS moDerneS

since 2008. He has been working on Jean-Paul Sartre’s manuscripts for a number of years and has written many

articles on the author. A doctor of philosophy, Bourgault teaches at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris.

Lucie campoS is a member of the editorial board of La Vie

DeS iDéeS, where she oversees the journal’s international projects and the development of its English-language page. Trained at

the École Normale Supérieure and Cambridge University, she lectures in comparative literature, with a focus on history and memory politics. She is currently the head of the French Book Office in London.

JoShua cohen is the author of eight books, including Four New Messages, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, A Heaven of Others, and Witz. He is a book critic for harper’S

magazine, and he lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Laurent DuBreuiL, Professor of Romance Studies & Comparative Literature at Cornell University, has edited several issues of LaByrinthe, on topics ranging from the end of the

world to reviews of graphic novels. He is currently the editor of DiacriticS and the founder and editor-in-chief of SanS papier—the first collection of electronic pre-prints in the field of French studies. He is the author of six books.

phiLippe ForeSt is the prize-winning author of several books on art and literature. He teaches literature at the University of Nantes and taught previously at universities in Great Britain.

Forest has contributed to the French magazine artpreSS, and is the editor-in-chief of La

nouVeLLe reVue FrançaiSe (nrF). In addition to numerous essays, he has written six novels, which have been published by Gallimard and translated into over a dozen languages.

FLorent guénarD is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online journal La Vie

DeS iDéeS. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure, he lectures in political philosophy at

the University of Nantes. Guénard has written extensively about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as on contemporary political philosophy, particularly on the process of democratization and political emotions.

heiDi JuLaVitS is a co-editor of the

BeLieVer. She is the author of four novels and co-editor, with Leanne Shapton and Sheila Heti, of the book Women in Clothes. She is a professor at Columbia

University and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book The Folded Clock will be published in 2015.

John r. macarthur has been the president and publisher of harper’S magazine since 1983. An award-winning journalist and author, he writes monthly columns for the proViDence

JournaL (in English) and for Montreal’s Le

DeVoir newspaper (in French). His first book, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, won the Illinois ACLU’s 1992 Harry Kalven Freedom of Expression award.

uzoamaKa maDuKa is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the

american reaDer. She has twice been named as one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” for Media and is one of Business Insider’s “Most Innovative

People Under 40” alongside figures such as Mark Zuckerberg and Banksy. In 2013, Ms. Maduka was elected as an honorary member of the PEN American Center. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied creative writing with Toni Morrison.

Sharon marcuS is Dean of Humanities, Orlando Harriman Professor of English at Columbia University and editor-in-chief of puBLic BooKS. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in

Nineteenth-Century Paris and London and Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. She is currently writing a book about theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.

DanieL menDeLSohn, the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, is an award-winning writer, critic and translator. His essays, reviews and articles appear in many publications,

most frequently in the new yorKer, new

yorK reView oF BooKS, and the new

yorK timeS BooK reView, where he is a columnist for “Bookends.”

oLiVier mongin is the editor-in-chief of eSprit, co-editor-in-chief of the journal touS

urBainS, and the vice president of Syndicat de la presse culturelle et scientifique. He has published

pieces on democracy, globalization, intellectual life in France and urban living. Previously, he was an editor at Hachette and at Seuil.

Karen nareFSKy is a community organizer in Somerville, Massachusetts and a contributing editor at JacoBin magazine. She focuses on urban issues and the right to the city,

including affordable housing and labor issues, from a Marxist perspective. She has a BA from Harvard University in Romance Languages and Literatures, including literary translation, and is fluent in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. 

raphaëLLe réroLLe works as a journalist at Le monDe, where she heads its

cuLture et iDéeS

supplement, after having been a literary critic with Le

monDe DeS LiVreS for 15 years. She also organizes, for Le Monde, the International Forum on the Novel (AIR), an annual literary event taking place in Lyon’s Villa Gillet. She has directed two movies: Erri De luca and Claudio Magris’ Italy (2013) and Ersi Sotiropoulos, Petros Markaris and Christos Chryssopoulos’ Greece (2014).

oLiVer rohe is the founding member of the incuLte publishing house, for which he has co-edited several essays and contributed to collectively written opinion pieces.He writes segments

for France Culture’s radio program and has been published in various periodicals and magazines, including La nouVeLLe reVue

FrançaiSe, etuDeS, La penSée De

miDi and FeuiLLeton. He is the author of three novels (Défaut d’origine, Terrain vague, Un peuple en petit) and of a fictional biography (Ma dernière création est un piège à taupes).

nicoLe ruDicK is the managing editor of the pariS

reView. She has written on books, comics, and art for the pariS

reView, the BoSton

reView, BooKForum, hyperaLLergic, and the LoS

angeLeS reView oF BooKS. She has also contributed essays to What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (RISD Museum of Art) and Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973–1977 (PictureBox).

Sam SacKS is a founding editor of open

LetterS monthLy and writes the Fiction Chronicle at the waLL

Street JournaL. He has contributed to the

LonDon reView oF

BooKS, proSpect, commentary, and the new yorKer’S page-turner blog, among others.

chriStine SmaLLwooD writes the New Books column for harper’S magazine, where she is also a contributing editor. Her reviews and essays have been published in many

magazines, including the new yorKer, the new yorK reView oF BooKS, and BooKForum. Her fiction has been published in the pariS reView and is forthcoming in mcSweeney’S.

roB SpiLLman is the editor of tin

houSe magazine. His work has appeared in the new

yorK timeS BooK

reView, Vanity Fair

and Vogue, among other places. He is also the editor

of Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.

patricK De Saint exupéry

is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of xxi. Previously, he reported for the newspaper Le

Figaro for twenty years. He is the recipient of the

Albert Londres prize and the Bayeux prize for war correspondents. His publications include L’inavouable, la France au Rwanda (2004), re-published in 2009 under the title Complices de l’inavouable ; La France au Rwanda; and La Fantaisie des dieux, Rwanda 1994 ( 2014).

JenniFer SzaLai was previously a senior editor at harper’S

magazine, where she oversaw the publication’s Reviews and Criticism. She is currently an editor at the new yorK timeS

BooK reView and has written for the nation, the new yorK

timeS magazine and the LonDon

reView oF BooKS, among others.

Lynne tiLLman is a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her most recent novel is American Genius, A Comedy; her fourth novel, No Lease on Life, was a 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award

finalist and NYT Notable Book of the Year. Most recent is What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (2014), her second essay collection. Her writing appears in BLacK cLocK, artForum, eLectric

Literature, tin houSe, and the timeS

BooK reView. A former Fiction Editor at Fence, she is a contributing editor of BomB, on the board of tripLe canopy, and writes a bimonthly column for Frieze magazine.

DeBorah treiSman has been the Fiction Editor at the new

yorKer since 2003. She is the host of the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the editor of the anthology 20 Under 40:

Stories from The New Yorker, and a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, she received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Contribution to Fiction.

phiLippe VaSSet is a FeuiLLeton

and Vanity Fair

contributor. He is the author of several novels. La Conjuration, published last year, recounts a cult’s journey through secret

Parisian passageways. Vasset classifies his work as “exofiction”, which he defines as the exact opposite of “autofiction”. Reviewers credit him with forging a new genre of geographical literature. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief of aFrica energy

inteLLigence and worked as a private investigator in Washington, D.C.

caitLin m. zaLoom is editor-in-chief at puBLic BooKS.Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Business and Society at NYU, she also directs the Metropolitan Studies

Program. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. Her current research explores the relationship between the financial economy and the American middle class family.

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noV 7–8, 2014

participantS

ScheDuLe oF eVentS

Fri, noV 7 (morning)8:45 AM | CAFÉ CROISSANTS

9:15 AM | WELCOME By Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor

9:30 AM | PANEL 1SHAPING REPRESENTATIONS OF THE WORLDIs writing for a journal (or revue) fundamentally different from publishing a newspaper article or a book? How does a journal’s ability to publish longer pieces in a collaborative work environment shape the way in which its writers analyze and describe the world’s realities? And how can a journal piece grow into a full-length book or artistic project?

With Laetitia Atlani-Duault (Socio), Philippe Forest (Nouvelle Revue française), Deborah Treisman (The New Yorker), Philippe Vasset (Feuilleton, Vanity Fair). Moderated by Rob Spillman (Tin House) 11:15 AM | PANEL 2THE LIFE CYCLE OF A JOURNALWhat motivates a group to launch a new publication? How might a journal form its editorial stance and identity? How can it ensure its content evolves over the years, along with its editorial committee? At what point does a journal decide to end production, or to begin publishing in another format?

With Jean Bourgault (Les Temps modernes), Laurent Dubreuil (Diacritics, Labyrinthe), Heidi Julavits (The Believer), Oliver Rohe (Inculte, Le Believer), Nicole Rudick (Paris Review). Moderated by Uzoamaka Maduka (The American Reader)

Fri, noV 7 (aFternoon)12:45 PM | LUNCH

2:00 PM | TÊTE-À-TÊTES*

5:00 PM | PANEL 3COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHING IN PROGRESS: BEHIND AND BEYOND THE PIKETTY EFFECTThis month, Public Books and La Vie des idées will co-publish a virtual roundtable investigating different aspects of political economy in Europe and in the US. How does this comparative approach shed light on current directions in the study of inequalities, in both academic and public spheres ?

With Lucie Campos and Florent Guénard (La Vie des idées), Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom (Public Books). Moderated by Karen Narefsky (Jacobin).

6:45 PM | PANEL 4 TWO CRITICAL CULTURES?Who drives taste in France and in the US? To what extent do the approaches, contents, tone, and ethics involved in reviewing (and reading) books in print and online differ in the two countries?

With Florent Guénard (La Vie des idées), Daniel Mendelsohn (New York Review of Books), Raphaëlle Rérolle (Le Monde “Supplément Culture et Idées”), Christine Smallwood (Harper’s Magazine), Jennifer Szalai (New York Times Book Review). Moderated by Sam Sacks (Open Letters Monthly, Wall Street Journal)

8:30 PM | COCKTAIL

Sat, noV 8 (morning)9:00 AM | CAFÉ CROISSANTS

9:45 AM | TÊTE-À-TÊTES*

11:00 AM | PANEL 5 THE JOURNAL IN THE PUBLIC FORUMLiterary journals have a strong tradition of publishing the work of engaged intellectuals. Do they play a role in directing public discourse? How can a journal work as a space for social and political activism?

With John R. MacArthur (Harper’s Magazine), Olivier Mongin (Esprit), Patrick de Saint-Exupéry (XXI), Lynne Tillman (Frieze). Moderated by Joshua Cohen

12:45 PM | LUNCH

* Tête-à-têtes are not open to the general public.

All events, apart from the Tête-à-têtes, are open to the public. RSVP to: bookoffice@frenchculture.org

This program is presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and co-sponsored by the Institut français in Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wildenstein, the French American Foundation, and Y.-A. Istel Foundation.

WWW.FRENCHCULTURE.ORG @FRENCHBOOKSUSA

French & American Journals:A Literary SalonnoV 7–8, 2014

Both France and the United States have strong traditions of publishing revues, or journals, featuring literary fiction, non-fiction and critiques. As a result, both countries boast a variety of high quality publications, in print and online, ranging from the prestigious and longstanding to the innovative and buzz-worthy.

On November 7-8, 2014, founders, editors and authors of a dozen French publications will travel to New York to meet their American counterparts. The two-day event will showcase a wide range of writing styles, including long-form journalism and reportage, book and art reviews, research, and critical theory. Public debates, one-on-one professional meetings, and reading recommendations will provide opportunities for attendees to engage in informal discussions and new collaborations.

The French and American journals will be on sale at Albertine Books in French and English, the reading room and bookshop at the French Cultural Services.

CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY 972 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY

VISIT WWW.FRENCHCULTURE.ORG | FOLLOW US @FRENCHBOOKSUSA

LAETICIA ATLANI-DUAULT is a Research Professor in Social Anthropology at the French National Development Research Institute and a member of the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative

Sociology at the CNRS. Atlani-Duault teaches at the EHESS and Paris 1 Sorbonne. She is a visiting professor at Hunter College and a Visiting Research Fellow at CUNY Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. She is co-editor-in-chief of SOCIO, and the editor of the book series Le (bien) commun.

JEAN BOURGAULT has been a member of the editorial committee of LES TEMPS MODERNES

since 2008. He has been working on Jean-Paul Sartre’s manuscripts for a number of years and has written many

articles on the author. A doctor of philosophy, Bourgault teaches at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris.

LUCIE CAMPOS is a member of the editorial board of LA VIE

DES IDÉES, where she oversees the journal’s international projects and the development of its English-language page. Trained at

the École Normale Supérieure and Cambridge University, she lectures in comparative literature, with a focus on history and memory politics. She is currently the head of the French Book Office in London.

JOSHUA COHEN is the author of eight books, including Four New Messages, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, A Heaven of Others, and Witz. He is a book critic for HARPER’S

MAGAZINE, and he lives in Brooklyn, NY.

LAURENT DUBREUIL, Professor of Romance Studies & Comparative Literature at Cornell University, has edited several issues of LABYRINTHE, on topics ranging from the end of the

world to reviews of graphic novels. He is currently the editor of DIACRITICS and the founder and editor-in-chief of SANS PAPIER—the first collection of electronic pre-prints in the field of French studies. He is the author of six books.

PHILIPPE FOREST is the prize-winning author of several books on art and literature. He teaches literature at the University of Nantes and taught previously at universities in Great Britain.

Forest has contributed to the French magazine ARTPRESS, and is the editor-in-chief of LA

NOUVELLE REVUE FRANÇAISE (NRF). In addition to numerous essays, he has written six novels, which have been published by Gallimard and translated into over a dozen languages.

FLORENT GUÉNARD is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online journal LA VIE

DES IDÉES. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure, he lectures in political philosophy at

the University of Nantes. Guénard has written extensively about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as on contemporary political philosophy, particularly on the process of democratization and political emotions.

HEIDI JULAVITS is a co-editor of THE

BELIEVER. She is the author of four novels and co-editor, with Leanne Shapton and Sheila Heti, of the book Women in Clothes. She is a professor at Columbia

University and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book The Folded Clock will be published in 2015.

JOHN R. MACARTHUR has been the president and publisher of HARPER’S MAGAZINE since 1983. An award-winning journalist and author, he writes monthly columns for the PROVIDENCE

JOURNAL (in English) and for Montreal’s LE

DEVOIR newspaper (in French). His first book, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, won the Illinois ACLU’s 1992 Harry Kalven Freedom of Expression award.

UZOAMAKA MADUKA is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of THE

AMERICAN READER. She has twice been named as one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” for Media and is one of Business Insider’s “Most Innovative

People Under 40” alongside figures such as Mark Zuckerberg and Banksy. In 2013, Ms. Maduka was elected as an honorary member of the PEN American Center. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied creative writing with Toni Morrison.

SHARON MARCUS is Dean of Humanities, Orlando Harriman Professor of English at Columbia University and editor-in-chief of PUBLIC BOOKS. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in

Nineteenth-Century Paris and London and Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. She is currently writing a book about theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.

DANIEL MENDELSOHN, the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, is an award-winning writer, critic and translator. His essays, reviews and articles appear in many publications,

most frequently in THE NEW YORKER, NEW

YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, and the NEW

YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, where he is a columnist for “Bookends.”

OLIVIER MONGIN is the editor-in-chief of ESPRIT, co-editor-in-chief of the journal TOUS

URBAINS, and the vice president of Syndicat de la presse culturelle et scientifique. He has published

pieces on democracy, globalization, intellectual life in France and urban living. Previously, he was an editor at Hachette and at Seuil.

KAREN NAREFSKY is a community organizer in Somerville, Massachusetts and a contributing editor at JACOBIN MAGAZINE. She focuses on urban issues and the right to the city,

including affordable housing and labor issues, from a Marxist perspective. She has a BA from Harvard University in Romance Languages and Literatures, including literary translation, and is fluent in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. 

RAPHAËLLE RÉROLLE works as a journalist at LE MONDE, where she heads its

CULTURE ET IDÉES

supplement, after having been a literary critic with LE

MONDE DES LIVRES for 15 years. She also organizes, for Le Monde, the International Forum on the Novel (AIR), an annual literary event taking place in Lyon’s Villa Gillet. She has directed two movies: Erri De luca and Claudio Magris’ Italy (2013) and Ersi Sotiropoulos, Petros Markaris and Christos Chryssopoulos’ Greece (2014).

OLIVER ROHE is the founding member of the INCULTE publishing house, for which he has co-edited several essays and contributed to collectively written opinion pieces.He writes segments

for France Culture’s radio program and has been published in various periodicals and magazines, including LA NOUVELLE REVUE

FRANÇAISE, ETUDES, LA PENSÉE DE

MIDI and FEUILLETON. He is the author of three novels (Défaut d’origine, Terrain vague, Un peuple en petit) and of a fictional biography (Ma dernière création est un piège à taupes).

NICOLE RUDICK is the managing editor of THE PARIS

REVIEW. She has written on books, comics, and art for THE PARIS

REVIEW, THE BOSTON

REVIEW, BOOKFORUM, HYPERALLERGIC, and THE LOS

ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS. She has also contributed essays to What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (RISD Museum of Art) and Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973–1977 (PictureBox).

SAM SACKS is a founding editor of OPEN

LETTERS MONTHLY and writes the Fiction Chronicle at THE WALL

STREET JOURNAL. He has contributed to THE

LONDON REVIEW OF

BOOKS, PROSPECT, COMMENTARY, and THE NEW YORKER’S PAGE-TURNER blog, among others.

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD writes the New Books column for HARPER’S MAGAZINE, where she is also a contributing editor. Her reviews and essays have been published in many

magazines, including THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, and BOOKFORUM. Her fiction has been published in THE PARIS REVIEW and is forthcoming in MCSWEENEY’S.

ROB SPILLMAN is the editor of TIN

HOUSE magazine. His work has appeared in THE NEW

YORK TIMES BOOK

REVIEW, VANITY FAIR

and VOGUE, among other places. He is also the editor

of Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.

PATRICK DE SAINT EXUPÉRY

is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of XXI. Previously, he reported for the newspaper LE

FIGARO for twenty years. He is the recipient of the

Albert Londres prize and the Bayeux prize for war correspondents. His publications include L’inavouable, la France au Rwanda (2004), re-published in 2009 under the title Complices de l’inavouable ; La France au Rwanda; and La Fantaisie des dieux, Rwanda 1994 ( 2014).

JENNIFER SZALAI was previously a senior editor at HARPER’S

MAGAZINE, where she oversaw the publication’s Reviews and Criticism. She is currently an editor at THE NEW YORK TIMES

BOOK REVIEW and has written for THE NATION, THE NEW YORK

TIMES MAGAZINE and THE LONDON

REVIEW OF BOOKS, among others.

LYNNE TILLMAN is a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her most recent novel is American Genius, A Comedy; her fourth novel, No Lease on Life, was a 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award

finalist and NYT Notable Book of the Year. Most recent is What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (2014), her second essay collection. Her writing appears in BLACK CLOCK, ARTFORUM, ELECTRIC

LITERATURE, TIN HOUSE, and the TIMES

BOOK REVIEW. A former Fiction Editor at FENCE, she is a contributing editor of BOMB, on the board of TRIPLE CANOPY, and writes a bimonthly column for FRIEZE magazine.

DEBORAH TREISMAN has been the Fiction Editor at THE NEW

YORKER since 2003. She is the host of the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the editor of the anthology 20 Under 40:

Stories from The New Yorker, and a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, she received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Contribution to Fiction.

PHILIPPE VASSET is a FEUILLETON

and VANITY FAIR

contributor. He is the author of several novels. La Conjuration, published last year, recounts a cult’s journey through secret

Parisian passageways. Vasset classifies his work as “exofiction”, which he defines as the exact opposite of “autofiction”. Reviewers credit him with forging a new genre of geographical literature. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief of AFRICA ENERGY

INTELLIGENCE and worked as a private investigator in Washington, D.C.

CAITLIN M. ZALOOM is editor-in-chief at PUBLIC BOOKS.Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Business and Society at NYU, she also directs the Metropolitan Studies

Program. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. Her current research explores the relationship between the financial economy and the American middle class family.

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French & American Journals:A Literary Salon

NOV 7–8, 2014

PARTICIPANTSSCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRI, NOV 7 (MORNING)8:45 AM | CAFÉ CROISSANTS

9:15 AM | WELCOME By Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor

9:30 AM | PANEL 1SHAPING REPRESENTATIONS OF THE WORLDIs writing for a journal (or revue) fundamentally different from publishing a newspaper article or a book? How does a journal’s ability to publish longer pieces in a collaborative work environment shape the way in which its writers analyze and describe the world’s realities? And how can a journal piece grow into a full-length book or artistic project?

With Laetitia Atlani-Duault (Socio), Philippe Forest (Nouvelle Revue française), Deborah Treisman (The New Yorker), Philippe Vasset (Feuilleton, Vanity Fair). Moderated by Rob Spillman (Tin House) 11:15 AM | PANEL 2THE LIFE CYCLE OF A JOURNALWhat motivates a group to launch a new publication? How might a journal form its editorial stance and identity? How can it ensure its content evolves over the years, along with its editorial committee? At what point does a journal decide to end production, or to begin publishing in another format?

With Jean Bourgault (Les Temps modernes), Laurent Dubreuil (Diacritics, Labyrinthe), Heidi Julavits (The Believer), Oliver Rohe (Inculte, Le Believer), Nicole Rudick (Paris Review). Moderated by Uzoamaka Maduka (The American Reader)

FRI, NOV 7 (AFTERNOON)12:45 PM | LUNCH

2:00 PM | TÊTE-À-TÊTES*

5:00 PM | PANEL 3COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHING IN PROGRESS: BEHIND AND BEYOND THE PIKETTY EFFECTThis month, Public Books and La Vie des idées will co-publish a virtual roundtable investigating different aspects of political economy in Europe and in the US. How does this comparative approach shed light on current directions in the study of inequalities, in both academic and public spheres ?

With Lucie Campos and Florent Guénard (La Vie des idées), Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom (Public Books). Moderated by Karen Narefsky (Jacobin).

6:45 PM | PANEL 4 TWO CRITICAL CULTURES?Who drives taste in France and in the US? To what extent do the approaches, contents, tone, and ethics involved in reviewing (and reading) books in print and online differ in the two countries?

With Florent Guénard (La Vie des idées), Daniel Mendelsohn (New York Review of Books), Raphaëlle Rérolle (Le Monde “Supplément Culture et Idées”), Christine Smallwood (Harper’s Magazine), Jennifer Szalai (New York Times Book Review). Moderated by Sam Sacks (Open Letters Monthly, Wall Street Journal)

8:30 PM | COCKTAIL

SAT, NOV 8 (MORNING)9:00 AM | CAFÉ CROISSANTS

9:45 AM | TÊTE-À-TÊTES*

11:00 AM | PANEL 5 THE JOURNAL IN THE PUBLIC FORUMLiterary journals have a strong tradition of publishing the work of engaged intellectuals. Do they play a role in directing public discourse? How can a journal work as a space for social and political activism?

With John R. MacArthur (Harper’s Magazine), Olivier Mongin (Esprit), Patrick de Saint-Exupéry (XXI), Lynne Tillman (Frieze). Moderated by Joshua Cohen

12:45 PM | LUNCH

* Tête-à-têtes are not open to the general public.

All events, apart from the Tête-à-têtes, are open to the public. RSVP to: bookoffice@frenchculture.org

This program is presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and co-sponsored by the Institut français in Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wildenstein, the French American Foundation, and Y.-A. Istel Foundation.

WWW.FRENCHCULTURE.ORG @FRENCHBOOKSUSA

French & American Journals:A Literary SalonNOV 7–8, 2014

Both France and the United States have strong traditions of publishing revues, or journals, featuring literary fiction, non-fiction and critiques. As a result, both countries boast a variety of high quality publications, in print and online, ranging from the prestigious and longstanding to the innovative and buzz-worthy.

On November 7-8, 2014, founders, editors and authors of a dozen French publications will travel to New York to meet their American counterparts. The two-day event will showcase a wide range of writing styles, including long-form journalism and reportage, book and art reviews, research, and critical theory. Public debates, one-on-one professional meetings, and reading recommendations will provide opportunities for attendees to engage in informal discussions and new collaborations.

The French and American journals will be on sale at Albertine Books in French and English, the reading room and bookshop at the French Cultural Services.

CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY 972 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY

VISIT WWW.FRENCHCULTURE.ORG | FOLLOW US @FRENCHBOOKSUSA

Laeticia atLani-DuauLt is a Research Professor in Social Anthropology at the French National Development Research Institute and a member of the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative

Sociology at the CNRS. Atlani-Duault teaches at the EHESS and Paris 1 Sorbonne. She is a visiting professor at Hunter College and a Visiting Research Fellow at CUNY Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. She is co-editor-in-chief of Socio, and the editor of the book series Le (bien) commun.

Jean BourgauLt has been a member of the editorial committee of LeS tempS moDerneS

since 2008. He has been working on Jean-Paul Sartre’s manuscripts for a number of years and has written many

articles on the author. A doctor of philosophy, Bourgault teaches at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris.

Lucie campoS is a member of the editorial board of La Vie

DeS iDéeS, where she oversees the journal’s international projects and the development of its English-language page. Trained at

the École Normale Supérieure and Cambridge University, she lectures in comparative literature, with a focus on history and memory politics. She is currently the head of the French Book Office in London.

JoShua cohen is the author of eight books, including Four New Messages, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, A Heaven of Others, and Witz. He is a book critic for harper’S

magazine, and he lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Laurent DuBreuiL, Professor of Romance Studies & Comparative Literature at Cornell University, has edited several issues of LaByrinthe, on topics ranging from the end of the

world to reviews of graphic novels. He is currently the editor of DiacriticS and the founder and editor-in-chief of SanS papier—the first collection of electronic pre-prints in the field of French studies. He is the author of six books.

phiLippe ForeSt is the prize-winning author of several books on art and literature. He teaches literature at the University of Nantes and taught previously at universities in Great Britain.

Forest has contributed to the French magazine artpreSS, and is the editor-in-chief of La

nouVeLLe reVue FrançaiSe (nrF). In addition to numerous essays, he has written six novels, which have been published by Gallimard and translated into over a dozen languages.

FLorent guénarD is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online journal La Vie

DeS iDéeS. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure, he lectures in political philosophy at

the University of Nantes. Guénard has written extensively about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as on contemporary political philosophy, particularly on the process of democratization and political emotions.

heiDi JuLaVitS is a co-editor of the

BeLieVer. She is the author of four novels and co-editor, with Leanne Shapton and Sheila Heti, of the book Women in Clothes. She is a professor at Columbia

University and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book The Folded Clock will be published in 2015.

John r. macarthur has been the president and publisher of harper’S magazine since 1983. An award-winning journalist and author, he writes monthly columns for the proViDence

JournaL (in English) and for Montreal’s Le

DeVoir newspaper (in French). His first book, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, won the Illinois ACLU’s 1992 Harry Kalven Freedom of Expression award.

uzoamaKa maDuKa is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the

american reaDer. She has twice been named as one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” for Media and is one of Business Insider’s “Most Innovative

People Under 40” alongside figures such as Mark Zuckerberg and Banksy. In 2013, Ms. Maduka was elected as an honorary member of the PEN American Center. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied creative writing with Toni Morrison.

Sharon marcuS is Dean of Humanities, Orlando Harriman Professor of English at Columbia University and editor-in-chief of puBLic BooKS. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in

Nineteenth-Century Paris and London and Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. She is currently writing a book about theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.

DanieL menDeLSohn, the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, is an award-winning writer, critic and translator. His essays, reviews and articles appear in many publications,

most frequently in the new yorKer, new

yorK reView oF BooKS, and the new

yorK timeS BooK reView, where he is a columnist for “Bookends.”

oLiVier mongin is the editor-in-chief of eSprit, co-editor-in-chief of the journal touS

urBainS, and the vice president of Syndicat de la presse culturelle et scientifique. He has published

pieces on democracy, globalization, intellectual life in France and urban living. Previously, he was an editor at Hachette and at Seuil.

Karen nareFSKy is a community organizer in Somerville, Massachusetts and a contributing editor at JacoBin magazine. She focuses on urban issues and the right to the city,

including affordable housing and labor issues, from a Marxist perspective. She has a BA from Harvard University in Romance Languages and Literatures, including literary translation, and is fluent in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. 

raphaëLLe réroLLe works as a journalist at Le monDe, where she heads its

cuLture et iDéeS

supplement, after having been a literary critic with Le

monDe DeS LiVreS for 15 years. She also organizes, for Le Monde, the International Forum on the Novel (AIR), an annual literary event taking place in Lyon’s Villa Gillet. She has directed two movies: Erri De luca and Claudio Magris’ Italy (2013) and Ersi Sotiropoulos, Petros Markaris and Christos Chryssopoulos’ Greece (2014).

oLiVer rohe is the founding member of the incuLte publishing house, for which he has co-edited several essays and contributed to collectively written opinion pieces.He writes segments

for France Culture’s radio program and has been published in various periodicals and magazines, including La nouVeLLe reVue

FrançaiSe, etuDeS, La penSée De

miDi and FeuiLLeton. He is the author of three novels (Défaut d’origine, Terrain vague, Un peuple en petit) and of a fictional biography (Ma dernière création est un piège à taupes).

nicoLe ruDicK is the managing editor of the pariS

reView. She has written on books, comics, and art for the pariS

reView, the BoSton

reView, BooKForum, hyperaLLergic, and the LoS

angeLeS reView oF BooKS. She has also contributed essays to What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (RISD Museum of Art) and Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973–1977 (PictureBox).

Sam SacKS is a founding editor of open

LetterS monthLy and writes the Fiction Chronicle at the waLL

Street JournaL. He has contributed to the

LonDon reView oF

BooKS, proSpect, commentary, and the new yorKer’S page-turner blog, among others.

chriStine SmaLLwooD writes the New Books column for harper’S magazine, where she is also a contributing editor. Her reviews and essays have been published in many

magazines, including the new yorKer, the new yorK reView oF BooKS, and BooKForum. Her fiction has been published in the pariS reView and is forthcoming in mcSweeney’S.

roB SpiLLman is the editor of tin

houSe magazine. His work has appeared in the new

yorK timeS BooK

reView, Vanity Fair

and Vogue, among other places. He is also the editor

of Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.

patricK De Saint exupéry

is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of xxi. Previously, he reported for the newspaper Le

Figaro for twenty years. He is the recipient of the

Albert Londres prize and the Bayeux prize for war correspondents. His publications include L’inavouable, la France au Rwanda (2004), re-published in 2009 under the title Complices de l’inavouable ; La France au Rwanda; and La Fantaisie des dieux, Rwanda 1994 ( 2014).

JenniFer SzaLai was previously a senior editor at harper’S

magazine, where she oversaw the publication’s Reviews and Criticism. She is currently an editor at the new yorK timeS

BooK reView and has written for the nation, the new yorK

timeS magazine and the LonDon

reView oF BooKS, among others.

Lynne tiLLman is a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her most recent novel is American Genius, A Comedy; her fourth novel, No Lease on Life, was a 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award

finalist and NYT Notable Book of the Year. Most recent is What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (2014), her second essay collection. Her writing appears in BLacK cLocK, artForum, eLectric

Literature, tin houSe, and the timeS

BooK reView. A former Fiction Editor at Fence, she is a contributing editor of BomB, on the board of tripLe canopy, and writes a bimonthly column for Frieze magazine.

DeBorah treiSman has been the Fiction Editor at the new

yorKer since 2003. She is the host of the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the editor of the anthology 20 Under 40:

Stories from The New Yorker, and a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, she received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Contribution to Fiction.

phiLippe VaSSet is a FeuiLLeton

and Vanity Fair

contributor. He is the author of several novels. La Conjuration, published last year, recounts a cult’s journey through secret

Parisian passageways. Vasset classifies his work as “exofiction”, which he defines as the exact opposite of “autofiction”. Reviewers credit him with forging a new genre of geographical literature. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief of aFrica energy

inteLLigence and worked as a private investigator in Washington, D.C.

caitLin m. zaLoom is editor-in-chief at puBLic BooKS.Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Business and Society at NYU, she also directs the Metropolitan Studies

Program. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. Her current research explores the relationship between the financial economy and the American middle class family.

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French & American Journals:A Literary Salon

noV 7–8, 2014

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Fri, noV 7 (morning)8:45 AM | CAFÉ CROISSANTS

9:15 AM | WELCOME By Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor

9:30 AM | PANEL 1SHAPING REPRESENTATIONS OF THE WORLDIs writing for a journal (or revue) fundamentally different from publishing a newspaper article or a book? How does a journal’s ability to publish longer pieces in a collaborative work environment shape the way in which its writers analyze and describe the world’s realities? And how can a journal piece grow into a full-length book or artistic project?

With Laetitia Atlani-Duault (Socio), Philippe Forest (Nouvelle Revue française), Deborah Treisman (The New Yorker), Philippe Vasset (Feuilleton, Vanity Fair). Moderated by Rob Spillman (Tin House) 11:15 AM | PANEL 2THE LIFE CYCLE OF A JOURNALWhat motivates a group to launch a new publication? How might a journal form its editorial stance and identity? How can it ensure its content evolves over the years, along with its editorial committee? At what point does a journal decide to end production, or to begin publishing in another format?

With Jean Bourgault (Les Temps modernes), Laurent Dubreuil (Diacritics, Labyrinthe), Heidi Julavits (The Believer), Oliver Rohe (Inculte, Le Believer), Nicole Rudick (Paris Review). Moderated by Uzoamaka Maduka (The American Reader)

Fri, noV 7 (aFternoon)12:45 PM | LUNCH

2:00 PM | TÊTE-À-TÊTES*

5:00 PM | PANEL 3COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHING IN PROGRESS: BEHIND AND BEYOND THE PIKETTY EFFECTThis month, Public Books and La Vie des idées will co-publish a virtual roundtable investigating different aspects of political economy in Europe and in the US. How does this comparative approach shed light on current directions in the study of inequalities, in both academic and public spheres ?

With Lucie Campos and Florent Guénard (La Vie des idées), Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom (Public Books). Moderated by Karen Narefsky (Jacobin).

6:45 PM | PANEL 4 TWO CRITICAL CULTURES?Who drives taste in France and in the US? To what extent do the approaches, contents, tone, and ethics involved in reviewing (and reading) books in print and online differ in the two countries?

With Florent Guénard (La Vie des idées), Daniel Mendelsohn (New York Review of Books), Raphaëlle Rérolle (Le Monde “Supplément Culture et Idées”), Christine Smallwood (Harper’s Magazine), Jennifer Szalai (New York Times Book Review). Moderated by Sam Sacks (Open Letters Monthly, Wall Street Journal)

8:30 PM | COCKTAIL

Sat, noV 8 (morning)9:00 AM | CAFÉ CROISSANTS

9:45 AM | TÊTE-À-TÊTES*

11:00 AM | PANEL 5 THE JOURNAL IN THE PUBLIC FORUMLiterary journals have a strong tradition of publishing the work of engaged intellectuals. Do they play a role in directing public discourse? How can a journal work as a space for social and political activism?

With John R. MacArthur (Harper’s Magazine), Olivier Mongin (Esprit), Patrick de Saint-Exupéry (XXI), Lynne Tillman (Frieze). Moderated by Joshua Cohen

12:45 PM | LUNCH

* Tête-à-têtes are not open to the general public.

All events, apart from the Tête-à-têtes, are open to the public. RSVP to: bookoffice@frenchculture.org

This program is presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and co-sponsored by the Institut français in Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wildenstein, the French American Foundation, and Y.-A. Istel Foundation.

WWW.FRENCHCULTURE.ORG @FRENCHBOOKSUSA

French & American Journals:A Literary SalonnoV 7–8, 2014

Both France and the United States have strong traditions of publishing revues, or journals, featuring literary fiction, non-fiction and critiques. As a result, both countries boast a variety of high quality publications, in print and online, ranging from the prestigious and longstanding to the innovative and buzz-worthy.

On November 7-8, 2014, founders, editors and authors of a dozen French publications will travel to New York to meet their American counterparts. The two-day event will showcase a wide range of writing styles, including long-form journalism and reportage, book and art reviews, research, and critical theory. Public debates, one-on-one professional meetings, and reading recommendations will provide opportunities for attendees to engage in informal discussions and new collaborations.

The French and American journals will be on sale at Albertine Books in French and English, the reading room and bookshop at the French Cultural Services.

CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY 972 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY

VISIT WWW.FRENCHCULTURE.ORG | FOLLOW US @FRENCHBOOKSUSA

the new yorK timeS BooK reView (uS) is a weekly publication that is included in the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It contains reviews of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, as well as essays about literature and the world of books. <<

the pariS reView (uS) was founded in 1953 with the mission of promoting creative writing and art over criticism. Decade after decade, The Paris Review has introduced the important writers of the day, from Jack Kerouac to Mona Simpson. In addition to the focus on original creative work, the founding editors discovered another alternative to criticism—letting the authors talk about their work themselves. The Writers at Work interview series offers authors a rare opportunity to discuss their life and art at length.

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new yorK reView oF BooKS (uS) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. It is inspired by the idea that the discussion of important books is an indispensable literary activity. It publishes long-form reviews and essays, often by well-known writers, and original poetry. The Review celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013. Martin Scorsese recently documented the publication’s history and influence in The 50 Year Argument. <<

Vanity Fair (Fr) is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence, luminous photography and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice — often the only choice — for the world’s most influential and important audience. <<

open LetterS monthLy (uS) is an online arts and literature review. Founded in 2007, the site specializes in long-form criticism and commentary that combines authoritative analysis with friendly readability, intelligence with entertainment. Its goal in every issue is to provide a reliable diversity of subject matter and opinion, and its coverage is dictated more by the passions of its contributors than by the trends of the moment. <<

the american reaDer (uS) is a bimonthly print literary journal that is committed to inspiring literary and critical conversation among a new generation of readers, and to restoring literature to its proper, prominent place in American cultural discourse. The Reader features new fiction; new poetry; new drama; translated portfolios of international fiction, poetry, and drama; well-argued reviews of new literature; considered essays on all matters literary; and occasional interviews with writers, publishers, editors, artists and industry professionals. >>

DiacriticS (uS), a review of contemporary criticism, was one of the first academic journals to bring continental theory to the US, by way of translations and articles by major European and American thinkers. Its signature writing and reporting style is the review article that analyzes in detail the theoretical arguments and assumptions of the most significant books in the humanities and social sciences. It periodically publishes special issues on relevant topics or thinkers of great current interest. >>

FeuiLLeton (Fr) consists of 192 pages of foreign journalism and literary news accompanied by infographics, illustrations and photographs. A cross between a magazine and a book, Feuilleton presents pieces with both journalistic and literary qualities. <<

cuLture et iDéeS (Fr), a weekly supplement to Le Monde, is dedicated to cultural and intellectual analysis of current events. Articles involving specialists, artists and intellectuals shed light on the world around us and provide alternative approaches to contemporary events in a way otherwise unlikely with the continuous stream format of the daily news cycle. More often than not, these articles’ ambition is to step away from traditional paradigms of consumption of information. Instead, the authors seek to answer simple questions readers may have. >>

La nouVeLLe reVue FrancaiSe (Fr) was established in 1909 by André Gide and other French writers. Now under the auspices of esteemed publishing house Gallimard, NRF has been edited by Jacques Rivière, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Jean Paulhan. Philippe Forest and Stéphane Audeguy have been the publication’s editors-in-chief since 2011. <<

Socio (Fr) was created to serve as a platform for innovative social science research, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary work. Out both online and in print, the journal features articles in English and in French. Each issue has a different theme. In addition to pieces by researchers in the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and history, Socio publishes articles by doctors, lawyers, social workers, and others working in related fields. >>

the BeLieVer (uS) aims to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought—whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking—in an attractive vehicle that’s free from the bugbears of condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation. Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers original perspectives curated by editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, Ross Simonini, and Karolina Waclawiak. >>

eSprit (Fr), one of the most prestigious French journals, was founded in 1932 by philosopher Emmanuel Mounier. The monthly independent magazine’s mission is to analyze the evolving political, social and cultural climate in France and the world. Each issue is centered on a theme. It also features literary criticism and a “journal” section with opinion pieces. >>

JacoBin (uS) is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches over 6,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of 400,000 a month.

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LaByrinthe (Fr) has a focus on research and experimentation within the realms of literature, philosophy, history and the social sciences. In the interest of all that is complex, fragmented and unsolved, Labyrinthe seeks to encourage shifts in perspective, the intersection of approaches, and the spread of ideas. Rather than focus on specific notions or subjects, Labyrinthe is first and foremost a collectively produced publication which valorizes the varying analytical methods, areas of expertise and writing styles of its authors. >>

LeS tempS moDerneS (Fr) was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945 with the mission of analyzing current events through a humanist perspective. The journal played a key role both culturally and politically in the 20th Century, most notably during the decolonialization of the Maghreb. In a world vastly different from the one in which Les Temps Modernes was founded, the publication continues to strive to maintain a sense of openness. It has been edited by Claude Lanzmann, director of the film “Shoah”, since 1985. >>

the new yorKer (uS) is a weekly magazine, founded in 1925, that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, international affairs, popular culture and the arts, science and technology, and business, as well as fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons. >>

puBLic BooKS (uS) is an online review affiliated with the scholarly journal Public Culture, the Columbia University English Department, and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Its goal is to give academics the opportunity to write about contemporary books and media in ways that are accessible to scholars in multiple disciplines and to an educated general public. They train scholars at all career stages and in multiple disciplines to act as public intellectuals, facilitating their entry into debates about works and ideas that deserve timely, intensive discussion. >>

traFic (Fr) The many images we come across can be categorized into the new (computer graphics) and the old (mythological or religious). And then there are the images we see in film, which can bring back memories, stir emotions and raise a multitude of questions. Founded 22 years ago by Serge Daney and Patrice Rollet, Trafic seeks to explore what we can glean from images and presents readers with pieces on film cultures and trends from around the world. >>

tin houSe (uS) aims to be a haven for authors at the peak of their powers, as well as a jumping-off point for unpublished writers and anyone taking risks with form and language. The quarterly magazine is not identified with any one region but draws writers and contributing editors from all over the globe. It publishes fiction, poetry and essays by new and established writers. >>

This program is presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and co-sponsored by the Institut français in Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wildenstein, the French American Foundation, and Y.-A. Istel Foundation.

French & American Journals

A Literary Salon

harper’S magazine (uS), the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper’s Index. The essays, fiction, and reporting in the magazine’s pages come from promising new voices, as well as some of the most distinguished names in American letters, among them Jonathan Franzen, Mary Gaitskill, David Foster Wallace, and Tom Wolfe. <<

Frieze (uS) is a leading magazine of contemporary art and culture. Published eight times a year, it includes essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators. <<

incuLte (Fr) was established in 2004 by a group of writers, translators and philosophers: Bruce Bégout, Arno Bertina, Alexandre Civico, Claro, Mathias Énard, Hélène Gaudy, Maylis de Kerangal, Mathieu Larnaudie, Stéphane Legrand, Nicolas Richard, Oliver Rohe and Jérôme Schmidt. First called a “literary case study” for its unusual, even off-the-wall writings, Inculte is recognized as a stronghold of French literary innovation. Now a publishing house, Inculte publishes Multitudes and Le Believer, a quarterly collection of translated selections from The Believer. <<

La Vie DeS iDeeS (Fr) aims to incorporate intellectual discussion into daily life. Started at the Collège de France in 2007, the daily online journal has established itself in France as a major place for debate. It publishes accessible and original interviews, essays and reviews in both English and French on various disciplines within the political and social sciences. <<

xxi (Fr) was launched by publisher Laurent Beccaria and journalist Patrick de Saint-Exupéry in 2008, at a time when some were declaring the death of print journalism. Its aim was to create a well-crafted, post-internet publication readers would want to keep and put on display. The “mook” (part magazine, part book) combines long-form journalism, narrative photography and reportages in graphic novel format. Its only editorial rule: tell a story about the world as it is today, and in a way that incites curiosity. <<