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Where does one go after The Perfect Nanny? To a not-so-perfect marriage. French-Moroccan author Leila Slimani will return this summer with her first new novel since her groundbreaking 2016 thriller, ...

The defining scene in Leila Slimani's "Watch Us Dance" comes near the end. It's the wedding of wealthy Aïcha Belhaj, whose Moroccan family profited during France's 1956 withdrawal from their country.

Moroccan-born, Paris-based author Leïla Slimani uses writing to take the cultural temperature. Her first novel (published in English as Adèle) examined sexual addiction in a twist on the Dominique ...

Mathilde, the protagonist of Leila Slimani’s “In the Country of Others,” is “a foreigner, a woman, a wife, a being at the mercy of others.” She meets her future husband, Amine, a Moroccan officer ...

There are certain, not ideas, but idea-shaped impressions that long outlive their expiration date, being useful to those who possess the appetite but not the enterprise to develop a philosophy of ...

Author, activist, literary superstar, and now, Cannes jury member. Leïla Slimani just landed one of the most iconic roles in the film world: helping decide who takes home the Palme d’Or at the 78th ...

Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to ...