Origins

This morning, the skies over Florida buzzed with excitement as Blue Origin's colossal New Glenn rocket soared into the cosmos, marking a significant milestone for Jeff Bezos' space venture. It was the first dance of New Glenn in Earth's orbit, and the stakes couldn't be higher as it aims to carve out its own niche in the highly competitive satellite launch market—right alongside SpaceX. Standing an impressive thirty stories tall and boasting a reusable first stage packed with liquid oxygen and methane, New Glenn took off…

Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It tells of the conditions for the emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s when the country plunged into a brutal war of liberation. The first generation of Algerian novelists and poets paved the way between the militant and the aesthetic imperative and founded a modern and inventive literature in its form and close to the misery and aspirations of their people in…