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 ...

The MIT Press describes Didier Eribon’s book Returning to Reims as “a memoir and meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locked in political closets.” The author never ...

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 ...

French sociologist Didier Eribon hadn’t heard of the phrase until he checked his 87-year-old mother into a home in Fismes, near Reims. Here the facility’s doctor also warned him that the risk of a new ...

In “Returning to Reims,” a production of the Berlin-based theatre company the Schaubühne at St. Ann’s Warehouse, in Brooklyn, the German actress Nina Hoss plays Katy, an actress who has been hired to ...

Nina Hoss of 'Homeland' fame stars in 'Returning to Reims,' Thomas Ostermeier's production based on the politically charged memoir by French author Didier Eribon. By Frank Scheck Political, social, ...

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 ...