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 ...

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SEX AND LIES: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World, by Leila Slimani. (Penguin, paper, $17.) Slimani, the French Moroccan novelist behind “The Perfect Nanny” and “Adèle,” argues ...

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, ...

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 ...

Watch Us Dance. By Leïla Slimani. Translated by Sam Taylor. Viking; 336 pages; $27. Faber & Faber; £16.99 STUDIOUS and shy, Aïcha leaves the mandarin and olive groves of her parents’ farm in Morocco ...

Since her appointment as chair of the 2023 International Booker Prize committee, French-Moroccan author and journalist Leïla Slimani has been reading one or two books a day. The annual award ...

Lucy Foley, the author of “The Guest List,” recommends books about the most intimate of dramas, including twisty mysteries and all-time favorites like “Rebecca” and “Gone Girl.” By Lucy Foley These ...