Over the decades, Ernaux has examined class shame through close observation of her parents’ lives, accounted for all-consuming romantic obsession, and transcribed fleeting encounters in supermarkets and trains in the Paris suburbs.
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Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
27 Oct. 2026
As the characters playfully debated the rise of Fascism, the dialogue often felt transcribed from some Brooklyn polycule.
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