Francesca Peacock

It’s hard to say what Parasol Against the Axe is about

In her latest novel, Balsam Karam asks uncomfortable questions with no simple answers

The seventeenth-century philosopher and playwright was a trendsetting, quixotic genius

The collection is replete with moments when she mixes the sexual with the absurd

Despite her institutional recognition in France, Richier is not as well-known outside her native country as she deserves to be