War in Ukraine: Russian conductor Valery Gergiev banned from classical music
Carnegie Hall in New York and La Scala in Milan, the Lucerne and Verbier festivals in Switzerland and, announced on...
Culture
“Journey to the End of Childhood” by Rachid Benzine: a young life in darkness
Journey through childhoodby Rachid BenzineThreshold, 80 p., €13Whether literary, theatrical, cinematographic or televisual, fiction has already taken up the burning...
“Waking World”, by Youn Sun Nah: a delicious harmony
When confinement brought the world to a standstill in March 2020, Youn Sun Nah was giving concerts in the United...
Berlinale: a very feminine prize list
The women have achieved the grand slam this season at major international film festivals. After Julia Ducournau in Cannes with...
The jazz selection of “La Croix”
► “Two Roses”, by Avishai CohenAccompanied by the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, bassist, composer and singer Avishai Cohen plays with musical...
“Chevrotine”, love at close range
Alcide has been raising his two sons alone since the death of his wife, who died of illness four years...
The culture of numbers
Everything is number and math is everywhere. Algorithms govern our lives, statistics guide our collective choices, artificial intelligence is becoming...
“Exterminate all these brutes”, the guilty silences of history
Raoul Peck is not a historian and does not claim to be. The filmmaker, former Minister of Culture of Haiti,...
“Sunday, Bloody Sunday”, U2’s most political hit
"This song is not a rebel song". That's what Bono said when he launched on stage in December 1982 Sunday,...
Primo Levi and Edith Bruck, no longer being and yet becoming
French toastby Edith BruckTranslated from Italian by René de CeccattyEditions du Sous-Sol, 170 p., €16.50Auschwitz, quiet townby Primo LeviTranslated from...
