C'est à Londres, en 1943, que Joseph Kessel a écrit L'Armée des ombres, qui n'est pas seulement l'un de ses chefs-d’œuvre mais le roman-symbole de la Résistance que l'auteur présente ainsi : « La France n'a plus de pain, de vin, de feu. Mais surtout elle n'a plus de lois. La désobéissance civique, la rébellion individuelle ou organisée sont devenues devoirs envers la patrie. [...] Jamais la France n'a fait guerre plus haute et plus belle que celles des caves où s'impriment ses journaux libres, des terrains nocturnes et des criques secrètes où elle reçoit ses amis libres et d'où partent ses enfants libres, des cellules de torture où malgré les tenailles, les épingles rougies au feu et les os broyés, des Français meurent en hommes libres. Tout ce qu'on va lire ici a été vécu par des gens de France. »

The people who buy paintings like this aren't just driven by aesthetic desire. People who buy paintings like this want a story. A story that catapults them into the orbit of the Führer. As Nicola and Philipp are clearing out their late father's house, they find an old painting stashed in the attic: a quaint watercolour of a church on a pale summer day, signed 'A. Hitler'. Nicola wants to sell it. Philipp wants to keep it. Philipp's wife Judith wants to burn it. A jagged satire from one of Germany's foremost playwrights, Nachtland opened at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in February 2024.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I. So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. An alternate cover edition of ISBN: 9781442472426

Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed to speak more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial—this can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women can no longer hold jobs. Girls are no longer taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words a day, but now women only have one hundred to make themselves heard. But this is not the end. For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune

At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington. AUDI. VIDE. TACE. The Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus – what they call Will – to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do. I tell them that I belong, and they believe me. But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart. And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family. To survive, though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me. And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.

« Je ne suis ni philosophe, ni sociologue, ni capitaine d’industrie. Je suis un praticien de l’autorité qui s’est toujours efforcé de placer les relations humaines au cœur de son engagement au service de la France et de ses armées. Car l’autorité n’est pas spécifiquement militaire, c’est le lien fondamental de toute société humaine. Fort de ces convictions, je propose dans ce livre quelques jalons pragmatiques, simples et avérés pour sortir d’un mal-être sociétal croissant, diriger avec justesse et discernement. » Le général Pierre de Villiers signe un essai ambitieux sur l’ordre, remettant l’Homme au centre du système. Comme le ferait un officier, il indique au lecteur le cap qu’il faut tenir dans un monde complexe et sa méthode pour y agir utilement.Mêlant une réflexion puissante sur les problèmes profonds que traverse notre époque et des solutions efficaces, le général de Villiers met ici son expérience unique au service de tous. Après quarante-trois années d’une carrière militaire qui l’a conduit à devenir chef d’état-major des armées, le général Pierre de Villiers est président d’une société de conseil en stratégie.

"Selon Zygmunt Bauman, notre ère postmoderne a vu l'avènement d'une " société liquide ", dans laquelle la communauté cède le pas à l'individualisme, le changement est la seule chose permanente et l'incertitude la seule certitude. Connu dans le monde entier pour ses travaux éclairants sur notre monde, Zygmunt Bauman avaient entamé, peu avant sa mort, un dialogue avec Thomas Leoncini, un journaliste italien de soixante ans son cadet. Celui-ci se fait le porte-parole des générations nées dans une " société liquide " et en perpétuelle mutation, abordant les enjeux du monde contemporain dans toute leur profondeur. Bauman les étudie avec un recul salutaire, des dynamiques de l'agressivité - et en particulier le phénomène du harcèlement -, aux questions que posent l'existence d'internet ou les transformations sexuelles et amoureuses. Partisan d'une collaboration générationnelle, " qui génère le présent et générera le futur ", le sociologue et philosophe de renommée mondiale s'adresse à tous avec simplicité et nous offre ici un formidable point d'entrée dans sa pensée."--[4ème de couverture]

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?