Bernard-Henri Lévy, along with Gilles Hertzog, Jean-Paul Enthoven, Guy Scarpetta and Gabi Gleichmann, among others, founds the journal La Règle du Jeu, the title of which is an explicit double homage to Michel Leiris and Jean Renoir. The editorial committee includes such eminent writers as Czelaw Milosz, Carlos Fuentes, Amos Oz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Susan Sontag, and Salman Rushdie. Here, he publishes the text of his report made to Thierry de Beaucé and François Mitterrand under the title “Dans les fourgons de la liberté” [Within the Confines of Liberty].

His Questions de Principe Trois [Questions of Principle III] is published in the spring, with the subtitle La suite dans les idées [Coherence of Ideas] – a new collection of texts ranging from political reporting to reflections on art and fiction, to analysis of the paintings of Frank Stella. Lévy’s admiration for Stella gives rise to Stella, les années 80 [Stella: the 1980s]. Lévy says to have found – in literature – this “combination of grace and level-headedness… only in the works of Baudelaire”.