Michel Leiris

Oct 22, 2024 | bookforum.com | Michel Leiris

MICHEL LEIRIS WAS A SMALL, polite French man who stayed alive for most of the twentieth century and wrote a deliciously dense memoir in four bricks called The Rules of the Game. The final chunk—Frêle Bruit, whose title has been translated by Richard Sieburth as Frail Riffs,rather than the more straightforward “faint noise”—is now finally available in English. This memoir project spans the years 1948 to 1976, which is roughly the middle of Leiris’s writing career.

Aug 15, 2024 | nybooks.com | Zoë Schlanger |Stefano Mancuso |Gregory Conti |Michel Leiris

Savvy in the Grass Some botanists maintain that peas are capable of associative learning, others that tropical vines have a sort of vision. If plants possess sentience, what is the morally appropriate response?

Aug 1, 2024 | bookforum.com | Michel Leiris

Sasha Frere-Jones Frail Riffs BY Michel Leiris. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 336 pages. $35. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon MICHEL LEIRIS WAS A SMALL, polite French man who stayed alive for most of the twentieth century and wrote a deliciously dense memoir in four bricks called The Rules of the Game. The final chunk—Frêle Bruit, whose title has been translated by Richard Sieburth as Frail Riffs,rather than the more straightforward “faint noise”—is now finally available in English.