For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A ...

“The Easy Life,” the author’s second novel, is translated into English for the first time. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

At 70, Marguerite Duras published, to much acclaim, “The Lover,” an autobiographical novel about her sexual awakening at age 15 in Saigon, with an older, wealthy man. She had alluded to this ...

L’Été 80, her fable-like political column for Libération, showed the full force of the revolutionary energies running through the French writer’s work. Marguerite Duras in Paris, France, 1986. (Photo ...

Reading the early works of established, revered writers always reminds me of looking at a baby’s face: how it seems impossible to know the ways that visage will sharpen and emerge, how mushy it is, ...

In a recent interview, Annie Ernaux, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, said of her detractors, “They think I’m not legitimate. What disgusts them is that there are people who have ...

FOUR NOVELS by Marguerite Duras. 303 pages. Grove Press. $3.95. Marguerite Duras is a fashionable French novelist whose work declines as her reputation grows. The Sea Wall (1950), her first novel, was ...

THE SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR by Marguerite Duras. 318 pages. Grove. $5.95. Since the decline of literary existentialism, French fiction has been dominated by four authors—Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Butor ...

The story of the great French modernist Marguerite Duras is rarely told as a tale of household management, despite her obvious talent for it. She made her name writing about the agonies of her own ...

Duras (1914-1995) is a figure of continuing interest to Francophiles, readers interested in women's writing and devotees of modern films like Hiroshima mon amour. With verve and poignancy, this ...