Antoine Compagnon explores this little-known aspect of the French author.

“There was one book we read — Roland Barthes’ ‘Camera Lucida,’” Chamandy said. “It was a book about photography, but it ...

Who will write the history of tears?” The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel returns to this question from ...

Ghayath Almadhoun writes a transformative love poem as the beloved and the lover negotiate minefields and soldiers, Adorno, and a collapsing Tower of Babel.

Ventoux is a huge moonscape of rock in Provence with little shade or grass. French philosopher Roland Barthes called it “a ...

“Independence Day” and “Those About To Die” director Roland Emmerich and Marco Weber (“The Thirteenth Floor,” “Igby Goes Down”) are developing a live-action TV series based on ...

And in his essay “The Death of the Author,” literary theorist Roland Barthes criticized and sought to counter “the explanation of the work is always sought in the man who has produced it, as if, ...

Outside the world of fashion and photography, posing - assuming a particular position to be filmed, photographed, painted, or stand out - is a bit frowned upon. For instance, When her photo's being ...

There is also Beck’s conceptual framework, which encompasses a larger vision about the nature of photography that is informed by his various readings (Roland Barthes’ “Camera Lucida ...

The most enduringly influential formulations of the author as irrelevant to the understanding of literary works came in the form of two essays written in France in the late 1960s: Roland Barthes’s ...

FRENCH philosopher Roland Barthes once said, "A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us." I was reading the revised edition of Marites Danguilan Vitug's "Power from the Forest, the ...

From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.