Khalid Lyamlahy is a Postdoctoral Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago working on North African literature. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and an MA in Comparative literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
Leïla Slimani / Photo courtesy of FrenchCulture.org
I have barely read any critical pieces on Leïla Slimani’s novel Chanson douce (Gallimard, 2016), winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt i...
Anecdotes often shed light on the way we see art and literature. A few weeks ago, I was skimming through Rachel Corbett’s book in the Paris metro when a young man came toward me and asked me whether t...