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News from november 27

- William Stanley Jevons. An Economic Science in Transformation
- Collective Volume, The Belle Époque of Criticism. Literary Criticism from Barrès to Gide and Valéry
- Collective Volume, Rereading Claire de Duras
- Remy de Gourmont, The Velvet Path. New Dissociations of Ideas
- Alain P. Michel, Pierre Bézier. The Quiet Worldwide Renown of an Engineer
- Anne Lancien, The Ligue de l’enseignement from 1958 to the Present Day. Transformations of a Popular Education Institution
- Collective Volume, France and Greece in the 19th Century. Crossed Perspectives
- Revue des études italiennes, 2025 – 1, No. 5. Theory of Culture and Literary Criticism in Gramsci
- Éthique, politique, religions, 2025 – 2, No. 27. Civic Friendship – From Athens to Rome
- LiCArC. Contemporary Arabic Literature and Culture, 2025, No. 13. History of the Emergence and Evolution of Arabic Performing Arts

News from november 22

- What future for technical diplomas?
- Xavier Storelli, A Reading of Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: The Tree Structure of the Circle
- Manon Courbin, The Aesthetics of Uncertainty in the Novel-Memoirs of the 1730s
- John Keats, Complete Sonnets followed by La Belle Dame sans Merci and the Odes
- Aurélie Leclercq, Questioning the Event: Baudelaire, Pessoa, Pasolini, Untimely Poets
- Florence Schnebelen, The Real and the Absolute: Romanticism and Experience from Goethe to Byron
- Francesca Scrofani, Inquiry into a Dialogue from Plato’s Corpus: Minos, or On the Law
- Jean de Sponde, Complete Poems
- Alonso de Contreras, The Story of My Life
- Victor Cousin, Moral Philosophy (1820)
- Review of the History of Economic Thought, 2025–2, No. 20. Miscellany
- Cahiers Lautréamont, 2025, No. 7. Miscellany

News from november 13

- Victor Hugo: Between Good and Evil, a Conscience in Storm
- Voltaire, Complete Theatre. Volumes I and II. The Shadow of Shakespeare
- Marc Courtieu, The Man Without Character. The Story of Eugène Charpin, Saint-Simonian (1812–189?)
- Nestor Capdevila, Tolstoy’s Conceptual Battles: A Practice of Philosophy
- Marie-Églantine Lescasse, Linguistic Ideology and Imagination in Spain (1492–1625)
- Journal of Medieval Studies and Romance Philology, 2025 – 2, No. 4. Tributes to Gérard Gouiran (1945–2025)
- Staëlian Notebooks, Germaine de Staël and the Coppet Group, No. 75, 2025. Rereading On Literature
- Tristan L’Hermite Notebooks, No. XLVII, 2025. Crossed Perspectives on Tristan and Corneille

News from november 6

- Imaginary Composers in Literature. Lecture with Arthur Morisseau
- Loan Berens, Translation and Colonization in Peru: Juan de Betanzos, the First Expert on the Inca World
- Bastien Cabot, The Securing of Mines in the 19th Century: Knowledge, Power, and Counterpowers
- Yossi Maurey, Music, Relics, and Sacred Kingship: The Liturgy of the Sainte-Chapelle
- Collective Volume, Blaise Cendrars: Laughter in Shards
- Collective Volume, Figures of Sleep in Cinema
- Cahiers Jean Giraudoux 2025, No. 53: Combat with the Angel
- Revue Bossuet. Literature, Culture, Religion, 2025, No. 16: Spirituality and Reflexivity: Writing for Oneself in the 17th Century
- La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 11, No. 18: Hélène Gaudy: Place, Image, and Trace

News from october 30

- ENS Entrance Exam. Ulm/Lyon 2026 / Additional Readings
- Alain J. Lemaître, The Shadow of the Martyr: Jews in the Kingdom of France in the 18th Century
- Jocelyn Godiveau, Modernity and Anti-Modernity of Decadence: From Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley
- Collective volume, L.-F. Céline on the Road
- Cixila of Toledo, The Life and Deeds of Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo
- Collective volume, The Oulipo: Generations
- The New Castoriadis Notebooks, 2025, No. 2 — Castoriadis, Thinker of Creation
- Ædificare: International Journal for the History of Construction, 2025 – 1, No. 17 — Miscellany
- Applied Economics 2024 – 1, No. 7 — Miscellany

News from october 23

- The Forgotten History of French Acadia
- Marcel Proust, The Mysterious Correspondent and Other Unpublished Stories 
- Georg Lukács, The Theory of the Novel 
- Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Moral Tales and New Moral Tales 
- Donatella Bisconti, Thinking Change in Politics: Between Rome and Florence (1453–1478)
- Antoine Gheerbrant and Jean-Noël Laurenti, The Declamation of Prose in Molière’s Theatre: Research on Forgotten Practices
- Collective, A Critical Look at Sovereignties: A Global Perspective from the Middle Ages to the Present
- Nicolas Doutey, An Idea of Stage: With Beckett’s Theatrical Writing
- Oriane Chevalier, Judith Gautier’s Total Theatre: Dream of the Far East
- Études sartriennes 2025, No. 29 — The Reception of Nausea
- Constellation Cendrars 2025, No. 9 — Miscellany
- Cahiers de sémiotique des cultures, 2025–2, No. 4 — Semiotic Anthropology: Cassirer and Beyond / Anthropological Semiotics: Cassirer and Beyond

News from october 16

- The Must-Sees of Summer
- Feminine Cultures of the Grand Siècle
- Juliette Lormier, Poetics of Duration: New Rhythmic Perspectives on French Verse
- Camille Néron, Virginia Woolf and Anne Hébert: Ideal and Novelistic Renewal
- Yoann Malinge, Action in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre: Freedom in Situation
- Couturière 2025 – 2, No. 2: Iranian Artistic Presences – Creation and Resistance
- Food Systems, 2025, No. 10: Miscellaneous

News from october 9

- The Book of the Ladder of Muhammad
- Kevin Petroni, Corsica, Conservatory of Modernity
- Federico Barbierato, Evangelists and Newsmen
- Marie Perrin-Daubard, Barbarism and Creation in Victor Hugo
- Collective volume, The Discourse on the Plague
- Louis Grodecki, Selected Reviews (1950–1980)
- Bibliography of French Literature 2025, Year 2024. Miscellany
- The Modern Letters Review 2025 – 10. Colette: The Power and Beauties of Brevity

News from october 2

- Reason of State Rewarded
- Myriam Bernier, Ninon de Lenclos. A Morality of Desire
- Aristotle, Parts of Animals (Περὶ ζῴων μορίων)
- Tony Visinet, A Month in the United States and Canada in 1886. Crossing the Atlantic on the New Fast Liners of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
- The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Reformism in the Belle Époque
- Balzac and the Disciplines of Knowledge. Sciences and Representation
- Numismatic Review, 2025, no. 182. Varia
- Louis Dumur Notebooks 2025, no. 12. Aspects of Literary Criticism
- Review of History and Religious Philosophy, 105th year, no. 3. Varia

News from september 25

- Event: Laélia Véron presents her book Le Mot fatal at the bookstore Les Temps modernes in Orléans
- Michel Hébert, Supplicating the Prince (1382–1460). The Provençal Communities and the Angevin State
-Dominique Faria, Paper Islands. A Literary Approach to Islands in French Fiction, 2000–2024
- Melchior de Polignac, Anti-Lucretius. Physics and Morality
- Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey, Correspondence and Other Documents
- The Directors of the Companies and the King’s Ministers in the Early Modern Period. A Complex and Ambiguous Relationship
- Écrans 2025 – 1, no. 23. From the Frame to the Border. Visual Arts, Cinema, Music

News from september 18

- Fifty years ago, Saint-John Perse passed away
- Louise Dupin, Women 
- Jehan Rictus, The Soliloquies of the Poor 
- Cervantes, Barbary Theater 
- Jules Siegfried, Travel Journal. In England, the West Indies, Spain, India, Italy, etc. (1860–1865)
- The Republicanism of Algernon Sidney
- Roger Martin du Gard and Stefan Zweig, Correspondence (1931–1941)
- Manon Gac, Artus Désiré: A Pamphleteer Against the Reformation
- Albert Rigaudière, Identity, Tradition, Innovation in the Cities of the Massif Central (13th–15th Century)
- Octave Mirbeau Notebooks 2024, No. 31. Miscellany
- Pegasus – For an Experimental and Applied Laboratory of Literary Theory, No. 2. Textual Forms

News from september 11

- Bandits, Smuggling, and Legends in the Age of Enlightenment
- Charles Nodier: Episodes and Memories from His Life
- Faust, Part One: A Philosophical Translation
- On the Edge of Silence: In the Interiority of the Novels (Claude Simon, Jean-Paul Goux)
- Melodramas, Vol. V, 1819–1822
- Putting into Prose, Whatever the Cost! Short Narratives and “Other” Genres from the 13th to the 16th Century
- Review of French Literary History, 125th Year, No. 3: Miscellany
- From Words to Deeds, No. 14: New Didactic Approaches to Specialized Translation and Interpreting

News from september 4

- Eloquence at the Heart of the Revolution
- Music and Animals in Ancient Thought
- The Imitation of Others and the Invention of the Self. The Concept of Ingenium in Spinoza
- Economics of Professional Sport
- Alexandre Dumas. General Correspondence. Volume X
- Louis XI on Stage (1827–1859). Historical Comedy, Tragedy, and Drama
- La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 9. “The Smallest France.” Irregular Visions of Defeated France (1940–1944)
- Libertinism and Philosophy in the Classical Age (16th–18th Century) 2025, No. 22 Spanish Libertines / Libertinos españoles

News from august 28

- Émile Sénart Prize 2025
- Complete Correspondence of Sophie Cottin – Volume IV
- Pascal Quignard the Anarchist
- The Fatal Word – Language, Power, and Wit in Balzac’s The Human Comedy
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Variations on the Savage
- Japan in the Writings of the Jesuits (16th–18th Century)
- Bulletin of the International Society of Friends of Montaigne – No. 81
- Cahiers Mérimée – No. 17

News from august 21

- 50 Years Ago: The Death of Andersen
- Beatmaking in Dakar. Music, Knowledge, Technology
- Utopia and Criticism
- Fanny Tercy, Complete Works. Volumes I and II — 1816-1823
- The Power of the Physician in the 19th Century
- The Art of Theater. Volume II by Pierre Jouvet 
- La Rochefoucauld, Memoirs. Volumes I and II
- Dictionary of Slang and Popular Expressions
- European Drama and Performance Studies, No. 25. Child Performers (17th-19th Century)
- CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, No. 8. Imagining Inclusive Communities in European Culte

News from august 14

- Offenbach in all its forms
- China and French Theater since 1978
- Handel & His Heroines. An Imagination of Women's Power
- European Avant-gardes and the Status of the Work of Art (1895-1917). "An Inexorable War on Doctrine"
- Homo Corporatus. Corporate Dynamics, the Officer World, and the Hybrid State in the 18th Century
- Thinking Childbirth in Philosophy (2021-2024). Writings and Conferences
- Revue d'études proustiennes – 2, no. 22. The Novel(s) of Albertine. One Hundred Years After Albertine Disappeared
- La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 8. Facing the Tree

News from august 7

- Desire and Beatitude according to Spinoza
- Discourse on the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" in the 20th Century. Identities, Memories, and History
- Philosophy of Matter and Materialist Philosophical Concepts
- Literatures of the Partition of India (1947-2013). Paradoxical Testimonies
- The Theater of Alphonse Daudet. Forgotten Successes
- Theater and Ethics in Europe during the Ancien Régime
- Bulletin of the Paul Claudel Society, No. 246. Taking up the Pen for Claudel. Commemoration of the Seventieth Anniversary of His Death
- Analecta Bruxellensia, No. 25. Regimes of Truth and Religious Experience

News from july 31

- Dante's Vita nuova honored by the Académie française
- The King is Dead II. Imaginary Royalties (1836–1893)
- (Re)reading Correspondences. Tributes to Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac
- Whitehead’s Natural Philosophy: Mathematics, Empiricism, and Relativity
- Dumas fils. Complete Plays. Volume V
- Exemplarity in Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches
- Cahiers Tristan Corbière, 2023, no. 6. The Poet in Representations
- Enterprise & Society, 2024 – 2, no. 16

News from july 24

- Frantz Fanon, One Hundred Years of Thought in Motion
- The Crimean War, the First Contemporary War
- "Old Manuscript." First Known Version of A Life
- The Dialectical Invention
- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. An Untimely Man in His Century
- Transformacions. Volume I. A Medieval Catalan Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Proust, From Schoolboy to Writer. Early Works (1884-1895)
- Louis Jouvet, The Art of Theater Volume I. The Actor's Profession
- Man-Machine
- Ethics, Politics, Religions, No. 26. The Republic of the Moderns
- Bertrand Review, No. 8. Varia

News from july 18

- Romain Rolland, Complete Works, Volume 9. Music Criticism and Other Texts on Music
- The Jewish Scholar and Music. Musical Science According to Medieval Hebrew Texts
- The Emotions of Boys in Children's Novels. Astrid Lindgren, Reif Larsen, Jean-Claude Mourlevat
- Vico on the Visual Arts
- Being, Coming from Elsewhere, and Writing in French
- Revue Balzac, 2025, No. 8. Ecologies / Ecologies
- Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 2025 – 1, No. 49. varia

News from july 10

- Greek Studies Association Prize 2025
- The Legal Control of Printed Matter
- Traces and Uses of Malebranchism in the French Enlightenment Novel (1712-1797)
- Autopsy of an Inquisition in Provence (1530-1533)
- Historical Poetics of "Modernity"
- Charles Baudelaire "To Brighten the Boredom of Our Prisons"
- Digital Studies, 2023 – 2, No. 16. Sensing Digital Matter. An Aesthetic Contribution of Video Games
- Alkemie. Biannual Review of Literature and Philosophy, 2025 – 1, No. 35. The Intimate

News from july 3

- 2026 Aggregations – Further Reading
- Normandy between Proust and Monet. Site, Landscape, Place of Memory
- Dialogue with Nature
- "To recognize is a God." Anagnorisis in Western Literature
- The Franco-Italian Creation of a Political Figure (1848-1880)
- La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 7. Julien Gracq, a singular figure of the writer as intellectual
- Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 105th year, no. 2

News from june 26

- Duplomb Law: Are Lobbying Campaigns Antidemocratic?
- Chronicle of the Regency and the Reign of Louis XV. Volume V. 1751-1754
- Mendicant Friars in French. Literary Criticism and Stereotyping from the 13th to the 16th Century
- The Sounds of Narratives under the Ancien Régime
- Artist and Citizen. Works in Verse and Other Texts
- The Game and Mystery of Monsieur Saint Julien (1529). And Other Works
- Socio-Economics of Labor, No. 15
- Encomia, No. 46
- History of the Council of Trent. Original Edition of 1619

News from june 19

- What is French? Myths and Realities
- Remarks on the French Language
- André Gide and Poetry. Poe(li)tic Visions
- Issues of Violence in Long 17th-Century Novels
- Tragedies of Decolonization. Francophone African, Caribbean, and Malagasy Theater (1942-1992)
- In Pocket: My Prisons, Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, The Betrothed
- Interview and Book Signing with Salima Tenfiche
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2025 – 1, No. 19
- Couturière, 2025 – 1, No. 1. The Extreme Next

News from June 13

- Desires and Their Place in Our Society
- Renewal of Algerian Cinema
- The Economic Constitution
- The Television Moment in Cinema and Literature
- Alterimages: Coats of Arms and Madonnelle of the Roman Baroque
- Describing a Language: Objectives and Methods
- La Lettre clandestine, 2025, No. 33: The Encyclopédie, the Encyclopedists, and Clandestine Philosophical Literature
- La Revue des lettres modernes, 2025 – 6: Barbey and His Postures

News from June 5

– Jean de Sismondi – A Sentimental Liberal
– The Wisdom of Aristotle
– The Company as a Political Actor – Labor, Convention, and Governance
– Industry in the Lodévois – Workshops, Markets, and People (15th Century)
– Philosophy and Media – A Semiodiscursive Approach to the Contemporary French Press
– Ventriloquized Figures – Women’s Voices (16th–18th Century)
– The 19th Century in Its Languages – Essays in Honor of Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gérand
– Cahiers de Lexicologie, 2025 – 1, No. 126 – Science Through Words, or How to Form a Scientific Terminology in the Middle Ages
– Neologica, 2025, No. 19 – Neology and Activism

News from May 29

– Evangelicals and Power – A Historian’s Perspective
– Portrait of the Polemicist as an Artist – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly and Léon Bloy (1848–1917)
– Gide and Chopin – From Gide’s Musical Aesthetics to the Reception of Chopin in France
– The Infinite Work of Pier Paolo Pasolini
– Stilts for Semantics – A Contribution to the Epistemology of the Discipline
– Selected Plays
– Romanesques, No. 17 – Aspects of the Polyphonic Novel
– Nicolas Rapin (1539–1608) – A Poitevin Poet, Humanist, and Soldier during the Wars of Religion. Volumes I–II
– The Images or Paintings of Flat-Painting – Translation and Commentary by Blaise de Vigenère (1578). Volumes I–II

News from May 22

– Bicentennial of Saint-Simon’s Death – The Invention of Modern Organization
– Judicial Pleas and State Practices (Europe, 16th–19th Century)
– Epistemocriticism in Film – Coppola, Tarr, Verhoeven, and Others
– Before the Storm – The Ideas of the Day (June 1911–August 1914)
– "City Air Makes You Free" – Essays in Honor of Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
– Achilles and Patroclus – A Myth of the Male Couple
– Memoirs of a Cross Thief (Pocket Edition)
– Theater by Women of the Ancien Régime, Volume IV (Pocket Edition)
– La Henriade – Followed by Essay on the Civil Wars of France and Essay on Epic Poetry (Pocket Edition)
– Valery Larbaud Notebooks, No. 61 – Édouard Dujardin – Valery Larbaud: Correspondence I, 1922–1929
– Notebooks of the International Association of French Studies – 2025, No. 77

News from May 15

– Lecture by Jean-Marie Roulin
– Alexandre Kojève and the Law
– The Inclusion of Religious Fact in Personal Writings
– Becoming Jocasta – Births and Rebirths of the Character from Antiquity to the Present
– Materialist Histories of Materialism – Genealogy and Uses of a Category
– German Views of the Scandinavian North in the 18th Century
– European Journal of Service Economics and Management, No. 19
– Journal of Literary History of France, 125th Year, No. 2
– The Journal of Modern Letters, 2025–5 – Flaubert and Eros
– The Researches of France – Volumes I–III

News from May 8

– Anarchist Jurists
– The Market for Law – Social Law and Capitalism in Otto von Gierke
– Agricultural Policies – Theories, Histories, Reforms, Experiences
– Waging War in the 17th Century – Crossed Perspectives on Austro-Ottoman Wars
– Children of Hermes – Travel, Otherness, and Reception of Antiquity
– Practices and Theories of Reading French Theater in the 16th and 17th Centuries – A Critical Anthology
– Season, the Series Journal, No. 9
– Ædificare, No. 16 – International Journal of Construction History
– Journal of Italian Studies, No. 4 – Women in Italian Literature Today

News from May 2

– Martine Kahane – Winner of the France Musique Jury Prize
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Complete Works, Volume XIII A
– Games and Their Rules in France and England (16th–18th Century)
– Dostoevsky, Proust, and Gide – Narrative Manipulation and Ambiguity
– André Pieyre de Mandiargues – Or the Writing of Disquiet
– Literature and Ethology
– Cultural Semiotics Notebooks, No. 3 – Ecology of Meaning, Meaning of Ecology