Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst

From hefty literary magazines to thriving newspaper kiosks and book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die It took me nine months of 20-hours-a-week French language instruction, and the mycelial network of a year spent in Strasbourg, to feel courageous enough to walk into a bookshop to buy something more challenging than Le Petit Prince. I was immediately humbled: there was an entire new universe, just barely linguistically accessible, and I had no idea who wa...

By Alexander Hurst