Why would summer readings necessarily be synonymous with escape? Holidays are also an opportunity to discover sociological, political or philosophical works that will change your gaze on the world. Here is our selection.
Vigilants: supervised and supervisor, these women in the heart of the far rightfrom Léane Alestra
In 2024, France became interested in the phenomenon of trad wives -Born in the United States and popularized in particular on social networks-advocating the return of housewives in a very 1950s vein. What is the source of this revival of conservatism? Who are these vigilants, guardians of reactionary and excluding policies? After having achieved memories on the Nemesis movement and femonationism, the researcher in gender studies and political journalist Léane Alestra deciphers the long -standing recovery of feminist values by the identity spheres “for racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic electoral purposes”, and how women have become the keystone of the extreme right. A return to history, the function of symbols, the paradoxes inherent in these figures, in a documented and demanding work exploring lots of reflection tracks. NR.
Vigilants: supervised and supervisor, these women in the heart of the far rightfrom Léane Alestra, JC Lattès editions, 336 pages, 20.90 euros.
Coran or the gay despairby hip visadei
Admittedly, you have to have morale to tackle Cioran. Already to read his aphorisms-but is there something more chic than to launch a “hope is to deny the future” or a “the fact that I exist proves that the world does not make sense”? You also have to have a well-hung heart to read the story of the life of the Franco-Romanian thinker. And yet, we take the same guilty pleasure in reading the philosopher as the masterful biography that Anca Visdei dedicates to him. Example: “Half a century later, Cioran will admit that he had known in his childhood crises of loneliness and melancholy and” sadness of beginnings “. At the age of five, in a sort of existential revelation, he would have had the intuition of nothingness, feeling exiled in time. »»
The author had the privilege of meeting the author Of the disadvantage of being borndied in 1995. After admirable research work, she paints a portrait of a being steeped in contradictions. The thinker of so radical pessimism was a cheerful, cultivated, jovial, talkative man. He said he was single, he lived in secret with the same woman for years. Small, he complaced in misery, lived in the crochet of his friends, while working in his glory, to build his posterity, but while refusing the honors. Anca Visdei especially manages to keep a good distance from his subject, did not in any way tail of Cioran’s proximity with the Romanian fascinating and anti -Semitic groups of the 1930s, a companionship denied by the author.
But this biography also manages to be something else: a reflection on disenchantment, on our human condition. A book crowned with a very deserved goncourt of biography 2025. HW.
Coran or the gay despairAnca Visdei, The Archipelago, 421 pages, 22 euros.
Madness and resistance, by Claire Touzard
“Each period creates and identifies its crazy and crazy. Who are the crazy and the crazy today? Who are the subversive beings that bother the order of the world? »Diagnosed bipolar, the author of Alcoholless is interested in this test in the stigma of mental disorders, and how they are exacerbated by systemic violence. Convening a number of intellectuals, like Bell Hooks or Frantz Fanon, she weaves an intimate and political story, presenting this obsolete term that is madness as a tool of resistance and liberation in a society where all radicality is seen with a suspicious eye. A necessary work. NR.
Madness and resistance by Claire Touzard, divergences editions, 200 pages, 17 euros.
Write mazanfrom Élise Costa
Another book on Mazan? One could blow by seeing the wave of publications devoted to the trial of Dominique Pelicot and fifty other accused, recognized for most of them of rapes on Gisèle Pelicot. But Élise Costa, a judicial columnist at Slatechose to offer us an original device. Right pages, the series of six long articles published on the site of its media. A sober, precise and fair story on the life of this Pelicot family, on the investigation, on the trial. On the left, to read in parallel, the commentary of these articles, the explanation, the why. Why start your paper with such a grip? Why focus on such a protagonist? We read at the same time the article and its exegesis, in the form of sketches, plans, handwritten notes. The exercise is exciting. Because he tells the journalistic work, in this case a journalist dive almost by chance (and if the trial had held behind closed doors as was envisaged at the start?) In Chaos Pelicot. We love off (in which hotels sleep journalists?) And explanations on the writing process. HW.
Write mazanElise Costa, Marchialy, 350 pages, 22 euros.
Resist guilty, of Mona Chollet
Where does this little voice come from which constantly pushes us to self -teller? By listening more carefully to her inner monologue, the essayist Mona Chollet became aware, one day, that she was her biggest criticism. This tendency to guilt, as she explains in her latest work, is neither an individual particularity nor characteristic of a part of life, it is notably the product of a Judeo-Christian culture. From maternity to the professional sphere, women are, at all stages of their lives, particularly victims of contradictory injunctions, victims of the cult of performance or, worse, of the culture of rape. No ready -to -use solution to defeat the inner enemy, if not a call for more sweetness to counter these “some impediments of existing”. NR.
Resist the guilt of Mona Chollet, Éditions La Découverte, 272 pages, 20 euros.
