This Week, Those Books

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Psst...we're joining even more dots

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Apr 14, 2023
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Dear Readers

Delighted to say that we’re continuing to join the dots by connecting with those who can tell us interesting things about the way the world links up.

For instance, why is French cinema so heavily focussed on issues to do with terminal illness? Nearly a year after the English version of acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère’s latest book, Yoga, what should we really make of a work that’s been described as “an amazing feat of self-cannibalisation”?

Henri Astier will tell us all of that and more. Henri, formerly a senior colleague at the BBC World Service, will be offering some guest posts that promise to be as intriguing as they are insightful. Henri’s DNA is from France but he is of the world. Based in London, he has written for, among others, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist, The Critic, Persuasion, The Observer, CapX, Le Point and Commentaire. His aim, he says, is “to explain the French to the Anglo-Saxons and vice versa”. You can read two of his recent pieces here

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