“The Anomaly” or how to start 2021 by asking yourself a ton of existential questions

“The Anomaly” won the Goncourt Prize, considered the most important literary award in France. The problem with that, is that my expectations are always too high. I start the book thinking that I am holding a book which will be passed on from generation to generation, be read and analyzed in 100 years and become …

To Be a Machine or how to solve the modest problem of death

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, an essential book about our future, by Mark O'Connell   Black Mirror ended its fourth season with an episode called Metalhead in which robodogs turned on humans; revealing the quest for survival in a society in which …

The world of literature lost one of its pillars last night: Jean d’Ormesson.

« Tant qu’il y aura des livres, des gens pour en écrire et des gens pour en lire, tout ne sera pas perdu dans ce monde qu’en dépit de ses tristesses et de ses horreurs nous avons tant aimé ». 'As long as there will be books, people to write them and others to read …

When mushrooms are used as a social weapon

We often tend to see a book as an object that has pages on which a content of information is created to either form a story or teach subjects to the reader around a particular theme. However, a book is also a way of discovering ourselves, what happens around us, to explore the world we're …