Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 shows the book "Le Consentement" (Consent) by Vanessa Springora and displayed in a ...

A French memoir of sexual abuse created a political storm – but is it, as its author suggests, “first and foremost a piece of literature”? By Lola Seaton Most memoirists are burdened with the question ...

Following the recent accusations against the filmmakers Christophe Ruggia and Roman Polanski, France is having a third belated #metoo moment with the scandal surrounding Gabriel Matzneff, a French ...

A literary, legal and cultural storm in France is possibly becoming a watershed moment in the broader #MeToo movement. Vanessa Springora, 47, has written an explosive tell-all book that alleged, in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Growing up in France in the mid-1980s, I remember those teenage girls who enjoyed the freedom I did not. They ...

Gabriel Matzneff was there waiting almost every afternoon when Vanessa Springora got out of school. In winter, he wore a gold-buttoned greatcoat; in springtime, a belted safari jacket. Sunglasses in ...

“Consent,” an adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s bestselling book which sparked a belated #MeToo moment in France, has lured major distributors while thriving at the local box office and stirring ...

A spate of recent works—some memoiristic, some fictional—points to how uniquely teachers and mentors can manipulate their power. Asymmetry is distinct, not least because it’s fiction. But it ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. It’s a peculiar thing about critics. We praise fiction by saying it has the ring of truth, and ...

Vanessa Springora’s “shocking” and “rapier-sharp” memoir (which first appeared a year ago in France) details her abuse, long ago, by a man “lionised for decades by the French establishment”, said ...

Paris prosecutors have opened a rape probe into prominent French author Gabriel Matzneff. The investigation was launched on Friday, one day after the publication of 'Consent', a book accusing Matzneff ...

Prestigious French publisher Gallimard is pulling controversial writer Gabriel Matzneff's writing from its shelves after details of his seduction of a young teen 36 years his junior emerged. The ...