Most biographies and memoirs of Ludwig Wittgenstein show, rather than say, that he could be a jerk. Some writers excuse his behaviour because he was so clearly a genius, others because he had a specia...

When I was nineteen, I met a man who seemed very old to me, in a cafe in Trastevere, Rome. He asked me what I did in life. I was a theatre student and grandly told him I was a playwright. I had at tha...

Collections of short stories are sometimes made from previously published material, offering few surprises beyond the sequencing of the pieces. Paris

It seems that Emmanuel Carrère is now thought to be France’s “greatest living writer”. France has always needed a greatest writer, and even if there are