ALBERTINE V13 by Emmanuel Carrère

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France’s renowned nonfiction writer, Emmanuel Carrère, has a talent for recounting historical events and nonfiction prose. In V13, he captures the spectacle of the 10-month trial in the Palais de Justice, known as V13, or “vendredi 13,” a sort of metonymic euphemism for the series of mass shootings and suicide bombings throughout Paris that resulted in 137 deaths. Carrère has chronicled the trial for The Paris Attacks, or the Attacks of November 13, 2015, since last September until the end of the trial this past June. His weekly columns, which appeared in le Nouvel Observateur, have been edited and published…