Every Monday between September 2021 and June 2022, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère would file 1,500 words for the Paris-based magazine L’Obs (now Le Nouvel Obs). He was part of the magazine’s three-member team covering the trial of 20 men accused of involvement in the ghastly 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, but while his colleagues were court reporters who cranked out daily dispatches on the proceedings, Carrère’s interest in the case—purportedly France’s most expensive trial—was, in his own words, “only authorized by his desire.”
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