Five years after her international triumph Girlhood, writer-director Céline Sciamma returns with a poignant feminist revision of the historical romance. In the late eighteenth-century, Marianne, a free-spirited painter, travels to a remote island off the coast of Brittany to paint a portrait of Héloïse, a young woman whose mother has recently taken her out of a convent to marry her to…
Catherine Cusset is the award-winning, best-selling author of thirteen novels published by Gallimard. She taught literature at Yale between 1991 and 2002 and lives in New York City. Her novel Un brillant avenir received the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize in 2008 and her novel L’autre qu’on adorait was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in 2016. The Story of Jane was published by Simon & Schuster in 2001 and Life of…
Man muss Hannes Stein glauben, wenn er im Prolog seines neuen Buches den Wunsch formuliert, er hätte rasch den Roman zur Pandemie geschrieben und nicht schon viele Jahre daran gearbeitet. Und doch mutet es unter heutiger Perspektive geradezu unheimlich an, wie sich die beiden Hauptfiguren, Julia Bacharach und Bodo von Unruh, in einer menschenleeren Hotelbar kennenlernen und miteinander zu flirten…
Part of the Silsila Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Translations Link to Register here The past decade has seen a proliferation of scholarship on material dimensions of Islamic belief and practice. From amulets to devotional paintings, shrine visitation and relics, a range of subjects once marginal to the historical study of Islam is now attracting attention in disciplines ranging from art history and anthropology…