According to writer and patron Metin Arditi, who has published the essay «The Eleventh Commandment», the rhetoric of Jerusalem as the «capital of Israel and of all Jews» is contrary to Jewish tradition. Worse, it creates anti-Semitism. Interview in Geneva.

LONG-FORM INTERVIEW, Jonas Follonier | Moix is a free spirit. Above all, he is driven by «novelistic truth»—which he conveys with the flair of a genius, using phrases that are as sensitive as they are harsh, and as tragic as they are funny. Who else but a master of premeditated improvisation is capable of this? A former panelist on the show «On n’est pas couché,» hosted by Laurent Ruquier on France 2, and former host of his own show «Chez Moix» on Paris Première, Yann Moix is also a child of television, who loves to put his verbal wit to work in the intimate and demanding exploration of people, books, and the world. I had been warned: «He’s a bit of an oddball.» This experience was confirmed during this interview, which very nearly didn’t happen. The writer, director, and television commentator opens up to *Le Regard Libre* about his «horrible years» in his twenties, the city of Reims in the 1980s, and the anti-Semitism he became entangled in during that time. And one of the best contemporary French authors explains to us exactly what he means by «novelistic truth,» two years after being the subject of controversies related to his family—a family he no longer refers to as such.

The throes of perinatal grief in «Pieces of a Woman».»

Is the polemicist convicted of anti-Semitism, and now on trial for racism, really your typical ultra-right thinker? Doesn't he also have a bit of the left in his mix? These are the issues at stake in defining extremes, at a time when progressivism sometimes has totalitarian overtones. 

«Le Schmock» is a sharing experience

Pascal Couchepin's Reading, Episode #1

Anti-Semitism is fought almost everywhere in the world. Particularly in France, where it is associated with collaboration. No one claims to be anti-Semitic. Even those who make such remarks.

Philip Roth's dystopia depicts life in an America that has become anti-Semitic. The modified story shatters our certainties and rekindles a fear that had previously lain dormant within us.

Le Regard Libre N° 38 - Jonas Follonier «In Paris's popular 19th arrondissement, Jews have come to the bitter realization that...