La série Dungeon Crawler Carl bientôt adaptée en série TV

‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ (credit Ace Books) / Seth MacFarlane (credit Josh Telles/Deadline)

La plateforme de streaming américaine Peacock a donné son feu vert pour lancer l’adaptation en série télévisée de la série de romans de LitRPG à succès de Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl. Le scénario sera écrit par Chris Yost (The Mandalorian), la série produite par Fuzzy Door, société de production de Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) en partenariat avec Universal Global Television, et Matt Dinniman participera en tant que producteur exécutif. Aucune date de diffusion n’a encore été annoncée.
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L’histoire : une invasion extraterrestre a décimé la majeure partie de l’humanité, et les survivants sont contraints de se battre pour leur survie dans un jeu télévisé intergalactique sadique. Dans ce jeu, ce n’est ni leur force ni leur dextérité qui les aidera à survivre, mais leur popularité et leur nombre de vues. Survivre est une option ; offrir un show d’enfer aux spectateurs, une nécessité.

Les romans sont publiés en français aux éditions Lorestone.

 

Les romans de la série Shatter Me de Tahereh Mafi bientôt à l’écran

Mafi: ABC News/ »Good Morning America” / HarperCollins

Les droits d’adaptation cinématographique de la série pour jeunes adultes de Tahereh Mafi, « Shatter Me », ont été acquis par Warner Bros qui comptent en faire un long métrage. Tahereh Mafi sera productrice executive du film aux côtés des maisons de production Temple Hill, Sunswept Entertainment et Langley Park Pictures. Aucune date de sortie n’a pour l’instant été annoncée.
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Le premier tome de la série de romans, sorti il y a quinze ans, a rencontré un succès phénoménal sur BookTok et les réseaux sociaux, avec plus de 15 millions d’exemplaires vendus à travers le monde.

Les romans, publiés en France chez Michel Lafon, mettent en scène Juliette Ferrars, une adolescente dont le simple contact est mortel, qui vit enfermée dans une forteresse sans pouvoir parler ni toucher quelqu’un. Son monde est régi par un organisme tout-puissant, le Rétablissement. Le fils du leader, Warner, l’a observé en cachette avant d’en faire sa captive. La malédiction de la jeune femme est pour lui une force. La série suit le parcours de Juliette alors qu’elle découvre son pouvoir et apprend à connaître sa force dans un monde dystopique mêlant romance et rébellion.

THE INVISIBLE HAND OF MARIA EDGEWORTH de Jeanna Smialek

The untold story of the nineteenth-century novelist who outearned Jane Austen and wove provocative theories into her fiction—changing economics forever.

THE INVISIBLE HAND OF MARIA EDGEWORTH:
How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics
by Jeanna Smialek
Knopf, October2026
(via David Black Agency)

At the end of the eighteenth century, Europe faced revolutions, famine, and war. It was out of this chaos that the field of economics was born—and while that founding has for centuries been attributed almost entirely to men, they were only part of the story. 

Maria Edgeworth, known to her contemporaries as “the Great Maria,” was one of the most important authors of the Regency era, envied by Lord Byron, admired by Jane Austen, and read avidly by the British royalty. But she was more than just a novelist and a society fixture: She was also a covert economist, working just after Adam Smith and alongside her friends David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. As the earliest economists established their philosophies on production and investment, Edgeworth published dozens of stories, many with lessons on finance, society, and trade tucked into their plots. Through her fiction, Edgeworth delivered new ideas to a broader public, stretching the boundaries of what a woman of her time could achieve and captivating an empire in the process.

Here, her tale is told alongside those of the men—and women—who invented a field that would reshape our world. Lively and original, The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth brings this astonishing woman and her world vividly to life and rewrites the origin story of modern economics.

“Whoever thought economics could be such a joy to read? Maria Edgeworth may have written the novels, but Jeanna Smialek’s book brings them—and their world—to life. Take a fascinating voyage with Ricardo, Malthus, and Maria, from the age of the American, French, and Industrial revolutions to the Great Irish Famine, and learn some economics along the way.” —Claudia Goldin, Nobel Prize laureate in Economics and author of Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity

“Revelatory and riveting—an original perspective on the history of economic thought that will change how you see today’s economy, and a pleasure to read from start to finish.” —Jason Furman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers

Jeanna Smialek is the Brussels bureau chief at The New York Times. She has covered economic policy in one way or another since 2013, and is the author of Limitless, a book on the history and future of the Federal Reserve. She has previously written for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. A native of Pittsburgh, Smialek has spent most of her career in New York City and Washington, D.C., and now lives in Belgium with her husband.

THE QUEEN OF BAD INFLUENCES de Jim Shepard

Twelve compressed masterworks from this great American writer of catastrophe fiction, in which lives are upended as much by broken hearts as by collapsing dams, hideously mismanaged wars, gargantuan wildfires, and apocalyptic storms.

THE QUEEN OF BAD INFLUENCES
by Jim Shepard
Knopf, September 2026
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

In Richard Ford’s view, Jim Shepard’s “talent is so various and canny he can write about seemingly anything and make it thrilling to us,” and in these stories spanning six centuries we find viscerally evoked worlds as wildly diverse as a mercenary’s corner of 16th century Madrid, a young apprentice’s pre-Revolutionary Boston, and Edward Hyde’s London. With civil engineers and destitute veterans we encounter the devastating 1935 Labor Day hurricane in Florida, and we read the 1864 letters between Lucy in Boon, North Carolina (“Three privates are currently sleeping soundly on our porch in their muddy blankets”) and her great love, William, on the march in Tennessee (“I can’t write much for it seems we are looking for a fight every minute”), while the title story introduces us to the stubborn Constance, who had “no gift for flirtation” with men, preferring Minna, her best friend and “queen of bad influences,” as their vexed devotion unfolds in part on the liner Lusitania.

With irony, compassion, and withering humor, these stories evoke the terrible ease with which cataclysm, human-engineered or otherwise, can sweep away all we find most precious, and expose those limitations we’ve refused to address. At the same time, Shepard celebrates what is best in us: the love and friendships we sustain, and the passions and grace we grant one another.

“Jim Shepard is a fantastic writer—compassionate, funny, and fearless—[whose work] does what great writing always does: inspires us to look more closely at life, and be more caring.” —George Saunders

« A deft, audacious artist. » —Norman Rush, National Book Award-winning author of Mating

Jim Shepard has written eight novels, including most recently Phase Six and The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish Literature, the PEN/New England Award for Fiction, and the Clark Fiction Prize, and five story collections, including Like You’d Understand, Anyway, a finalist for the National Book Award and Story Prize winner. Seven of his stories have been chosen for the Best American Short Stories, two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and two for Pushcart Prizes. His short fiction has appeared in, among other magazines, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The New Yorker, Zoetrope: All Story, and Playboy, and he was a columnist on film for the magazine The Believer. He also won a Guggenheim Foundation Award, the Library of Congress/ Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, and the ALEX Award from the American Library Association. He previously taught at Williams College and lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts with his wife Karen and two beagles.

KASKADEN de Louise K. Böhm

An electrifying novel about a formative, all-consuming friendship that refuses to be categorised.

KASKADEN
by Louise K. Böhm
Penguin Verlag, July 2026

If Jojo could erase her past, she would. At uni, she is constantly scared that someone will find out that she doesn’t belong there, and even her parents don’t really understand what she’s doing in her lab all day. When her former best friend Yara gets back in touch, Jojo thinks back to her sheltered youth in a dreary suburbia she couldn’t wait to leave, and radiant Yara, her only anchor in this confusing world – Yara in those green trainers of hers, who had an answer for everything and protected Jojo from a world that didn’t value girls. Jojo still doesn’t understand why Yara ghosted her after high school.

But just as Jojo is about to lose herself in her memories, a flirtation with her tutor and money troubles force her to focus on the here and now. How much power will she let the past wield over her?

Smart and light as a feather, « Cascades » is a brilliant debut about friendship, love and everything in between – about marginalisation and belonging, about opening up and the strength that true friendship can give us.

For fans of Paradise Garden by Elena Fischer, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante.

Louise K. Böhm, born in Berlin in 2000, studied media, creative writing, and cultural journalism and policy before starting a career in the music business. Her writing has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. On social media (@louschreibt_), she writes about books, gives insights into her life as an author and talks about classism in the culture sector. KASKADEN is her first novel.