After the Brazilian presidential election and the American midterms, checking the temperature on the state of democracy in a world that has been heading in the opposite direction for too long.
Source: Le Devoir
Le Devoir (“Duty”) is a French-language daily based in Montreal and distributed throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist, politician, and nationalist Henri Bourassa in 1910.
French writer Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize in literature took many by surprise, after a career spent largely in the shadows. A different kind of surprise comes in comparing her to another French writer, iconoclast media star Virginie Despentes.