marguerite duras

In praise of one of the great avant-garde trolls of cinema

31 August 2024 9:00 am

The most important thing to know about the filmmaker and writer Marguerite Duras is that she was a total drunk.…

How the myth of Paris liberating itself was born

3 August 2024 9:00 am

When De Gaulle persuaded Eisenhower to allow the French 2nd armoured division to lead a diversion into the city on 25 August 1944, it was his own political future he was thinking of

Bittersweet memories: Ti Amo, by Hanne Ørstavik, reviewed

3 September 2022 9:00 am

This is a deceptively slim novel. Its 96 pages contain multitudes: two lives, past and present, seamlessly interwoven. The narrator,…