John Lambert

Mar 8, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Édouard Louis |John Lambert |Russell Banks |Martin MacInnes

Among the stellar books featured in today's issue, we look at Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead by Lisa Selin Davis, "a clear-eyed cultural appraisal of 'women's work,' and the high price women pay as working mothers"; as well as Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera, which follows a podcast's murder investigation in a small town "with dark humor, propulsive pacing, and a properly confounding whodunit." Plus, Snowglobe by Soyoung Park, an "austere, thrilling, and...

Mar 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Édouard Louis |John Lambert

CHANGE, by Édouard Louis. Translated by John Lambert. Édouard Louis (né Eddy Bellegueule) burst onto the French literary scene in 2014 at the age of 21 with " The End of Eddy, " an autobiographical novel that announced, with aplomb, his own abnegation. The immolation is even more direct in the original French - "En Finir Avec Eddy Bellegueule," something like "finishing off Eddy," as others rendered it.