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AI and scientific evidence: what Lean checks, and what still needs examiningOpenAI’s announcements have revived the question of evidence produced by AI. The logical core, assumptions and results of AlphaProof: key points for assessing them.
Perec at the BnF: how a rule can open up an entire novelA missing letter, a puzzle-like building and variations: keys to understanding Perec’s choices and getting ready for the BnF exhibition, on until 14 February 2027.
“Le Rappel des oiseaux”: entering Sébastien Lapaque’s award-winning novelThe 2026 Grand Prix du roman goes to Sébastien Lapaque. Based on the available extract, a way into his story: childhood, inheritance and attentiveness to the living world.
Erik Orsenna and Claire-Marie Le Guay: two ways into BachA childhood memory, a book in two voices and a piano programme: Erik Orsenna and Claire-Marie Le Guay invite us to discover Bach through different doors. Here are some pointers for moving from the story to the works.
Merlin between emancipation and order: Quinet versus EvolaA 1984 archive made available again by France Culture sets two political uses of Merlin against each other: Edgar Quinet’s republican emancipation and Julius Evola’s hierarchical order.
Éclats de guerre: Patrick Chauvel, from reporting to narrativePublished on 21 October 2026, Patrick Chauvel’s book extends in written form a body of witness work whose 380,000 images are held at the Mémorial de Caen.
Jean Amrouche: the interview serial, a work in two voicesIn 1949, his conversations with André Gide established a serial format on the radio in which preparation mattered as much as conversation. The archives help us understand the method.
Hôtel Paris: Théodore Eristavi tells a story of exile between two worldsShortlisted for the second round of the La Renaissance Française prize, Théodore Eristavi’s novel revisits a departure from Georgia and a childhood in Montmartre.
“Les Misérables”, “Minotaur”, “The Corset”: three lives at breaking pointA former convict on the run, an entrepreneur in Russia in 2022, a child facing the constraints of a corset: three stories released in France on 14 October, each with a very different way in.
The Doll Shop: lived experience of Japan turned into an interactive storyAtelier Sentô turns memories of Niigata into a work of fiction blending romance and horror. Released on 12 October, the game differs from its former free prototype.
All the Lives of Rebeka Warrior: writing when death enters the roomA bedroom, a mosquito net, a narrator keeping watch: in the extract from All the Lives offered by Stock, death becomes a presence they try to keep at bay.
Back to Folegandros: a letter to reunite a family torn apartAgnès Martin-Lugand sets her new novel in the Cyclades. The starting point: a 25-year-old son summons his parents to the island of their past.