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“... and the legends about her have fascinated readers of everything from Elle to the Village Voice. Laure Adler’s biography, the best so far, proves that the required period of mourning is over. Duras produced 73 books and about twenty films; her last posthumous work, No More, is currently available in a chi-chi edition and billed as her ‘raucous ...”

“... thoroughly hostile to its subject. Not surprisingly, Lebelley chooses to believe Duras’s story. Laure Adler, the author of a successful, if occasionally unreliable Duras biography, hesitates. Finding the story ‘unbearable’ [‘insoutenable’], she asked Duras about it in 1994. The topic was dismissed with a wave of the hand. ...”

“... creation of a Jewish state. ‘I almost fell into Zionism,’ he confessed to the radio journalist Laure Adler in 2020, but the coarse anti-Arab racism he witnessed on a visit to Israel after the war quickly disabused him. ‘I couldn’t stand the new state choosing religion and individualism,’ he recalls in his memoir. ‘It was all that I ...”

“... the British system of criminal justice is adversarial and the French one inquisitorial, but Laure Berthaud and her team on Spiral don’t seem short of determined, even vicious adversaries who are technically on their side. By contrast, Vargas’s recurring detective Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg works cases without pressure from above in terms of ...”