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“... Marcel Fournier’s abridged version of his biography of Mauss, translated into lucid English by Jane MarieTodd, is a masterpiece of erudition, though scarcely scintillating. The book runs headlong into the problem of all life-histories of intellectuals: the fact that there is no reason to suppose that people are ...”

“... barely coherent, his book seems to address itself only to those in the know. The translation by Jane MarieTodd renders all these faults with exemplary ...”

“... facet, his English readers now helped by the elegant and discreetly knowledgable translation of Jane MarieTodd. In Democracy’s Slaves, he investigates the men who carried out the general administrative business of the new democracy, including the supervision of elections, the maintenance of civic archives, and ...”

“... in Vichy. The reality, as Olivier Wieviorka shows in this magisterial book, ably translated by Jane MarieTodd, was rather different. De Gaulle had not in fact called on the entire French population to rise up in 1940, but had tried to persuade officers and soldiers, engineers, armaments specialists and other ...”

“... Aviad Kleinberg’s clever, wide-ranging and tendentious book begins by recounting an experience which he cannot quite decide whether to classify as a moment of blinding insight or one of personal weakness. He was watching a television interview with Mother Teresa, in which she told of her first encounter with a dying leper. The leper had asked her why she was caring for him, and she had answered: ‘Because I love you ...”

“... the rakish lesbian salonnière Natalie Barney; Dolly Wilde (Oscar’s opium-addicted niece); Marie Laurencin, painter and friend of Picasso; the Ballets Russes dancer Tamara Karsavina; the photographer Berenice Abbott; modernist designer Eileen Gray; Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, editors of the avant-garde literary ...”