Antoine Compagnon, professor at Columbia and member of the Académie française, on his journey from science to literature, Proust, digital reading, and his summers with great authors.

Catherine Domain, founder of the Ulysse bookstore on the Île Saint-Louis, on travel, literature, freedom, and the art of living without compromise.

After thirty-six years in the United States, a Harvard professor returns to the Vosges. What follows is an unexpected journey—not between continents, but through the concentric circles of a world measured by footsteps.

Essayist and scholar of American democracy, Seth David Radwell traces the rise of MAGA populism back to a founding conflict: who truly governs, in whose name, and to what end?

Jeanne Theuret, entrepreneur and co-founder of a women’s health clinic, exposes the blind spots of a medical system long shaped by and for men — and sketches the outlines of a more equitable practice

Moroccan pianist trained in Paris, Brussels, and Casablanca, Nour Ayadi reflects on her intimate relationship with the piano, the depth of the classical repertoire, and the delicate art of interpretation.

How can one speak the irreversible — do justice to the past without betraying it? Drawing on Annie Ernaux’s works and journals, Harvard student Anna R. Gamburd explores the gestures of writing that preserve. A nuanced analysis, praised by the author herself, where literature, memory, and cinema intertwine.

Prosper Batariwah, lawyer and Harvard graduate, offers a sharp reflection on the layered forms of African identity and how literature has captured them — from the writers of the Négritude movement to today’s queer voices.

Through a sunlit summer memory in France, Franco-American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux retraces a formative exchange — between uncle and nephew, mentor and disciple, jazz and life. A story at the crossroads of coming-of-age and identity, where music becomes a way of becoming oneself.