Book review by Brigitte Panah-Izadi A Brief History of Equality, By Thomas Piketti In this insightful book, Thomas Piketti retraces the history of inequality, and very convincingly shows that progress towards a greater distribution of wealth in Western countries has been constant in the past 200 years. In Europe notably great efforts were made especially […]
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Book review on the novel Exiles from Paradise
With this first novel, Brigitte Adès offers us a “literature of instant history”. Convinced that fiction says more about reality than long treatises, she staged in this book the tormented friendship between Farhad and Reza, two exiles Iranians who confront each other on the question of faith. They embody, in their own way, the debate […]