In February and March 2026, social media users claimed that Iran held public rallies in which people in burned statues of Baal, an ancient Middle Eastern god worshipped before the Abrahamic religions ...

One afternoon in 2024, when her session in court had ended unusually early, Gisèle Pelicot went to the Leclerc supermarket in Carpentras, a picturesque town in Provence. She asked to meet the security ...

In the summer of 1971, Gisèle Pelicot was stung between the eyes by a wasp. “The venom was circulating, my eyelids were so swollen I could barely see.” That evening, at her aunt’s house, Dominique ...

Gisèle Pelicot's memoirs "A Hymn to Life" are her first account of her rape ordeal, the subsequent trial, waiving her right to anonymity and the consequences of her choices. Gisèle Pelicot will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gisèle Pelicot will perhaps be experiencing a renewed sense of freedom today. Her memoir "A Hymn to Life: Shame has to change ...

In September of 2020, Dominique Pelicot, a man in his 60s, was caught filming up women's skirts at a supermarket in southeastern France. Reports of his behavior led to an investigation that unearthed ...

Pelicot’s riveting account of her ordeal refuses to conform to any agenda but her own It is a mark of the power and honesty of Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir, A Hymn to Life – a seemingly impossible writing ...

In 1999 Vanessa Veselka wrote an essay, The Collapsible Woman, in Bitch magazine. In it she welcomed the growing public language around sexual violence while bristling at the narrow emotional scripts ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the summer of 1971, Gisèle Pelicot was stung between the eyes by a wasp. “The venom was circulating, my ...

She refuses to be a victim: Having survived years of assaults orchestrated by her husband while she was drugged unconscious, Pelicot chronicles in "A Hymn to Life" her path back to life. A last ...

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With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...