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In Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously-released novel, Until August, a woman visits the island where her mother is buried, a nameless speck off the Caribbean with blue lagoons and herons that call only at night. After laying a bouquet of gladioli on the panoramic hilltop that provides her mother’s resting place, Ana Magdalena Bach returns to the third-rate hotel in which she has booked a room before taking the ferry back home, shamelessly flirting with a silver-haired m...

The women in Marguerite Duras India Song and Baxter, Vera Baxter present images and rumors to the world but retain a core of adamantine mystery.

Mirror mirror: Marguerite Duras’s acclaimed classic India Song and her less well-known Baxter, Vera Baxter offer striking examples of her knack for colliding literary language with the audiovisual form

The English-language debut of the late French author's second novel reinforces her revival — and her influence on women writing with brutal frankness.

It’s 2022’s art-house image du jour – a self-absorbed 30-year-old running to get what she wants, irrespective of the long-term consequences to herself or anyone else.