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.

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

Le cinéma d’horreur est le miroir de notre société, de notre imaginaire collectif et des réalités dans lesquelles il prend racine. C’est une soupape de décompression, un sas hermétique dans lequel on peut tout expulser sans risquer de déborder sur les autres. Un divan de psy. Un terrain de jeux. Une catharsis. Un indispensable défouloir. L’horreur, sous forme de fiction, est contenue. Certes, il arrive qu’elle s’immisce dans nos cauchemars, qu’elle se rappelle à nous lorsqu’on cherche à s’endormir, mais on peut rallumer la lumière et intimer à notre imagination de se calmer. Contrairement à l’horreur qui nous entoure au quotidien, on sait où et quand ça va s’arrêter. Quand le générique défile, le cauchemar prend fin. On a compté les morts, on a hurlé, mais on a survécu, c’est terminé ! Ce récit d’apprentissage empli de monstres se double d’une passionnante quête personnelle et d’un plaidoyer passionné pour le cinéma d’horreur.

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

Londres, 1918. Tandis que tous les hommes sont sur le front, les femmes les remplacent à leurs postes et jouissent d’une liberté nouvelle qui apporte un peu de lumière à des journées ternies par la guerre. Et ce n’est pas sans déplaire à l’une d’elles, particulièrement : Stella Benson, écrivaine et amie de Virginia Woolf – sans connaître son succès –, chérit son indépendance, son célibat et une vie sans homme. Mais en temps de guerre, l’argent manque, les ventres sont vides et les nouvelles des combats, peu réjouissantes. Alors, pour oublier l’atmosphère pesante d’un avenir incertain, Stella écrit et imagine la vie de Sarah Brown, une secrétaire de l’administration anglaise de son âge au quotidien morose, jusqu’au jour où elle rencontre Miss Watkins… qui n’est rien de moins qu’une sorcière, volant la nuit sur son balai pour empêcher les bombes de s’abattre sur Londres !