Culture Alain Mabanckou’s The Lights of Pointe-Noire is a lyrical meditation on the journey home Although often marginalised under the broad label of "post-colonial", Mabanckou is emerging as a force in French writing. By Russell Williams
French revolutions: the eerie prescience of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s detective fiction An attentive reader of Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Guy Debord, Manchette used his novels to offer diagnoses of societal… By Russell Williams