Non-fiction
THE BACTERIA THAT GOVERN OUR BRAIN
Prof. 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 Inchauspe
Jessie Inchauspé does for glucose what Giulia Enders did for the gut… Our bodies talk to us all the time, but often we don’t know how to listen. How we feel in the morning largely depends on what we a…
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…
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields
Christina Lamb
At a critical time for women worldwide, acclaimed journalist Christina Lamb travels to war-zones to chronicle the harrowing and largely untold stories of women in war. Christina Lamb is the co-author…
The Folly and the Glory
Tim Weiner
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of Legacy of Ashes Tim Weiner, a gripping narrative account of how the Soviet Union (and now Russia) has waged political warfare – confli…
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…
Playing For Freedom
Zarifa Adiba
According to the UN, Afghanistan is the worst place on the planet to be born a woman. The effects of Taliban rule can be felt everywhere: women lack access to basic education, men make all the major d…