Section
Voices
Authors as subjects — read third-person and critically.
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01
Marie NDiaye
NDiaye's Uncanny France
Marie NDiaye's cool, unsettling realism — Three Strong Women, Rosie Carpe — where the ordinary tips into dread and race and belonging haunt the edges of the frame.
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02
Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis and the Return
The literature of leaving and going back — Édouard Louis's autobiographical indictment of class and violence, and the fraught genre of writing your way out of where you're from.
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03
Annie Ernaux
Ernaux and the Collective 'I'
Annie Ernaux's Nobel and her invention of a memoir that is also a social history — the 'I' that speaks for a generation, a class, a century.