Java, Indonesia: “Beauty is a Wound” by Eka Kurniawan : Can a square become a circle? It’s the inverse of the classic geometric problem of squaring a circle. A visit to Borobudur on the Indonesian island of Java gave me Continue Reading →

From the Valsesia to the Valle d’Aosta in the Italian Alps: « The Eight Mountains » and « The Wild Boy » by Paolo Cognetti and « The Weight of the Butterfly » by Erri De Luca. : Four of us, dashing young fifty-somethings, set off with our backpacks up the Vogna river. Our wives accompanied us through the first part of the valley, walking from hamlet to Continue Reading →

Saudi Arabia: « Girls of Riyadh » by Rajaa Alsanea : Saudi Arabia remained an enigma for me, like a blank on the world map. In 1993, I made a long trip to Asia, from Yemen to Hong Kong, but being Continue Reading →

Rwanda: “Jacaranda” by Gaël Faye : I just missed Gaël Faye’s visit to “La Page d’Après”, the bookshop my sister-in-law Floriane opened in Louvain-la-Neuve just over a year ago. Interest was so great that they had Continue Reading →

Countries and cities

List of countries, cities and localities in alphabetical order:

A

Antwerp (Belgium)

Ardennes (Belgium)

B

Bavaria and Southern Germany

Berlin (The Moment)

Blue Ridge Mountains, USA

C

Cape Coast, Ghana

Charleroi, Pennsylvania

Charlottesville, Virginia

Chicago (Hyde Park)

Chicago (Africans in America)

China: Beijing and Shangai

Côte d’Ivoire

D

Djibouti (Around the Red Sea)

E

F

Ferrara (Italy)

Fjällbacka (Sweden)

G

Ghent (Belgium)

Göttingen (Germany)

H

I

Istanbul (Turkey and Armenia)

J

Java, Indonesia

K

Kabylie, Algeria

Kalimpong, West Bengal, India

Kensington, Philadelphia

L

Liège (Belgium): Pedigree

Liège (Belgium): Letter to My Mother

Lisbon, Around Fernando Pessoa

M

Malacca, Malaysia

Marseille: Book of My Mother

Marseille: The Count of Monte-Cristo and Total Chaos

Mir Ali, Pakistan

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

N

Naples (Books, Movies and Beyond…)

Naples (Elena Ferrante)

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC

New-York (Books, Movies and Beyond…)

New-York (City on Fire)

New-York (Africans in America)

New-York (Leopoldstadt)

Notre-Dame de Paris

O

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

P

Paris, Place de la Contrescarpe

Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

Périgord, France

Provence, France

R

Rio de Janeiro (Crimes of August)

Rio de Janeiro (Books, Movies and Beyond…)

Rwanda (Jacaranda)

S

Sacra di San Michele, Piedmont, Italy

Saint-Fargeau (Castle), Burgundy

Saint-Petersburg

Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)

Savannah, Georgia

Siena (Fruttero & Lucentini)

Siena (A Month in Siena – Hisham Matar)

Soviet Union (Former)

Sri Lanka, Running in the Family

Sri Lanka, Anil’s Ghost

Swat Valley, Pakistan

T

Tbilisi, Georgia

U

V

Val d’Hérens, Valais, Switzerland

Valle d’Aosta and Valsesia

Victoria, Australia

Vienna (Leopoldstadt)

Vietnam (The Mountain Sing)

Villers-la-Ville

W

Washington, DC (Books, Movies and Beyond…)

Washington, DC (Africans in America)

Z

Zambia (The Old Drift)

Zambia (Out of Darkness, Shining Light)

Zanzibar (Out of Darkness, Shining Light)

Zanzibar (Gurnah)