Russell Williams is a writer and researcher. His work explores the contemporary French novel and he teaches literature at the American University of Paris.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Blurring the Boundaries: The Poetry of Michel Houellebecq
Russell Williams reviews Michel Houellebecq’s poetry collection “Unreconciled.”...
The Inaction Hero
What do Lee Child and Gustave Flaubert have in common?...
The Psychedelic Phenomenon
"Psychedelia and Other Colours" is an opportunity, in the midst of its current commercial march, to reflect on what we really mean by psychedelic....
The Real Paris
Jérémie Guez's "Eyes Full of Empty" is worth a read, for the acutely drawn window it provides on the contemporary metropolitan French experience....
Against Happiness
Nikolaj Lübecker's exploration of "The Feel-Bad Film" outlines a theoretical approach to films that allows us to stress their value, and highlight their implicit critique....
The Série Noire and Social Intervention
The Gallimard crime fiction imprint, Série Noire, celebrates its 70th anniversary....
