Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Didier Eribon presents like a standard-issue Parisian intellectual: spectacles, 2020s’ version of Jean-Paul ...

The French philosopher and sociologist said that Ernaux had always been “a great personal inspiration.” By Laura Cappelle and Alex Marshall Authors worldwide praised Annie Ernaux’s novels on Thursday ...

Didier Eribon's memoir Returning to Reims will resonate with a lot of readers – it's already a bestseller on the continent. It certainly did with me. It is a story of an academically able and ...

French sociologist Didier Eribon hadn’t heard of the phrase until he checked his 87-year-old mother into a home in Fismes, near Reims. Here the facility’s doctor also warned him that the risk of a new ...

Eribon feels no nostalgia for working-class life and mores. By Marina Benjamin We are easily bamboozled by buzzwords designed to buoy us against realities too awful to contemplate, and catch-all ...

Didier Eribon (born 10 July 1953) is a French author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life. He lives in Paris. Didier Eribon was born in Reims into a working-class family. He ...

In “Returning to Reims,” a production of the Berlin-based theatre company the Schaubühne at St. Ann’s Warehouse, in Brooklyn, the German actress Nina Hoss plays Katy, an actress who has been hired to ...