Too often, a writer dies and, for a moment, their works can be found everywhere as people mourn before the media moves on to the next news item. Though today marks the last day that J.D. Salinger’s letters are on public display at the Morgan Library and Museum, the spate of digital and print... »

"You say I idealize women? Possibly. Who can say. What’s wrong with a woman being idealized a bit now and then?" – Marguerite Duras "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size." – Virginia Woolf »

From March 12th through the 18th, Anthology FIlm archives will be presenting a retrospective of the films of Marguerite Duras as part of the “In the Words of Duras” festival. If you’ve been reading about the great plays and lectures in this festival, which began on February 18, don’t miss out on it’s final... »

The lights go up on a man’s shoulder blade and a woman’s delicately curved spine; she runs her hands up that blade and into his hair, grabbing it in her fist before taking his hand in hers, their naked bodies pressed up against a vertical black wall. As the audience looks on, she lazily... »

Astrid Bas: Diptych, The Lover and La Musica Deuxième, faithfully takes some of the most memorable passages of Duras on love, desire, and her youth from The Lover (1984) and pairs it with her play La Musica Deuxième (1985), a piece exploring the end of love as a soon-to-be divorced couple takes leave of... »

One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place, a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said: “I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than... »

I’ll admit it. I was seduced by the blatantly self-promoting title and the sexy landscape on its sweet cover, which smacks of literary promise. The author, Justin Taylor, is young, it’s his first published short story collection (though his bio tells us he’s at work on his first novel in Brooklyn) and reviewers seem... »