Chaque semaine, une sélection de parutions récentes, au-delà des titres phares.

Après la mort de ses parents, Bridget dresse leurs portraits cliniques et distanciés. Etonnant roman de l’écrivaine anglaise.

ENTRETIEN - L’écrivain voyageur publie «Le Dictionnaire amoureux de l’aventure», chez Plon. Une chevauchée entre explorateurs, héros réels ou de fiction, auteurs de renom, réflexions sur le goût du voyage qui fait vibrer le désir de l’ailleurs.

L'exécutif est en train de finaliser la nouvelle réforme de l'assurance-chômage. Selon nos informations, il envisage de porter à 8 mois de travail salarié dans les 20 derniers mois le minimum d'activité ouvrant droit à indemnisation chômage.

Auteur de BD, Xavier, dit L’homme étoilé, est aussi infirmier en soins palliatifs. Un quotidien et des patients qu’il raconte dans Constellation, son nouveau récit graphique, entre humour et émotion.

Juergens had never acted before she played the fearsome but troubled Senua in Ninja Theory’s game – and won a Bafta for it. Now she’s back to battle the character’s demons in a sequel

‘I hope people can relate to Senua,” says actor Melina Juergens, who plays the lead character in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, the newest game from British developer Ninja Theory. “I hope people play it and feel what somebody goes through on a daily basis who suffers from mental health issues – particularly psychosis. [They] come away with an understanding of it, able to empathise with people more.”

Juergens did not expect to be playing this role for the second time. In fact, she never expected to play it the first time. She was a video editor at the independent games studio when the first Hellblade game, Senua’s Sacrifice, was gestating in 2012. “They were looking for an actress, but in the meantime they asked me to step in to help out with [performance capture] tech experiments,” she tells me. “At some point, they asked me to perform a scene. The director really liked it and offered me the role.”

Microsoft, HP, Dell and others unveiled a new kind of laptop tailored to work with artificial intelligence. Analysts expect Apple to do something similar.