An exhibition in Paris co-curated by Effie Rentzou explores the ways in which Surrealist artists, ethnographers, and archeologists rethought objects and their value…
André Benhaïm is a professor of French and Italian. His latest book “Machines à lire [Reading Machines],” co-authored with Aymeric Glacet (Sewanee), was published in…
Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, died…
A new exhibition opening at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is co-curated by Effie Rentzou (French and Italian), director of the Humanities Council’s Program in…
The Icelandic writer Thor Vilhjálmsson once told me a beautiful story. He was a great admirer of the French writer Michel Butor, who was a major figure of the Nouveau…