Non-fiction
ME
Philippe Presles
Every day, we live with ourselves, our Me. It is our inner monologue, our view of the world, an inner record of our fears, our pain, our joys and our hopes. Nonetheless, we know precious little about…
Why Vegan?
Peter Singer
…in Why Vegan?, Singer brings together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to…
The Bacteria That Govern Our Brain
Gabriel Perlemuter
The biggest forces impacting your mental health and well-being are actually the smallest. Invisible to the human eye, far from your head, these billions of bacteria in your gut are present and powerfu…
Glucose Revolution
Jessie Inchauspé
Glucose, or blood sugar, is a tiny molecule in our bodies that has a huge impact on our health. It enters our bloodstream through the starchy or sweet foods we eat. In the past five years, scientists…
A VERY SPECIAL FAMILY
Patrick and Francine Violas
A heartwarming story about a zoo-refuge in the outskirts of Paris. It all began when Francine and Patrick purchased a small farm not far outside of Paris, and started taking in chickens, pigs, and cow…
The Folly and the Glory
Tim Weiner
Russia’s modern revival of the Soviet intelligence state in the twenty-first century has undermined countries across Europe and in the U.S. Weiner takes us behind closed doors to show how Putin uses p…
HOW TO STAY SANE WHEN EVERYTHING IS FALLING APART
Fabrice Midal
You’re not stumbling, there’s an earthquake afoot. Crisis is an opportunity to rebuild… Casting blame will not fix the problem… But rest assured, you’d be a robot if you weren’t afraid… The path…
America
François Busnel, editor-in-chief
From Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to the moveable feasts of the Lost Generation, France and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined as much by romantic fasci…
Life Is Not Useful
Ailton Krenak
For many centuries, Brazil’s Indigenous peoples have bravely faced threats of total annihilation and, in extremely adverse conditions, have reinvented their lives and communities. At a time when the C…
Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
Ailton Krenak
Humanity is facing the greatest environmental disaster of its existence. Global pandemics, extreme weather events, and massive wildfires all define the era many now call the Anthropocene. In three lec…