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 ...

St. Ann’s Warehouse celebrated the official opening of Schaubühne Berlin’s Returning to Reims, which makes its American debut with Homeland star Nina Hoss, February 11. The show is a multi-medium ...

The Homeland star impresses in Thomas Ostermeier’s engrossing staging of a memoir about political change and the left’s disregard of the working class The title suggests a Joan of Arc biopic told in ...

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 ...