Common LifeStphane Bouquet, translated by Lindsay Turner In three poems, one play, and three short stories, French writer Stephane Bouquets Common Life offers a lively, searching vision of contemporary life, politics, and sociality. At a moment at which the fabric of everyday social life is increasingly threatened across the globe, this book is a necessary exercise of the literary imagination: what, it asks, does it mean to inhabit the world together today?