While "Un garçon sans histoire" is the story of a struggle, it is also the story of an apprenticeship, and traces the path taken by the author and her husband as they learn how to become a family. This is the very same story that "Ton frère" pursues. Minh Tran Huy records the various revelations brought about by her ordeal.…

What does writing a biography entail? How could one qualify a biographer's position vis-à-vis their subject? What is the true nature of their involvement? What are their responsibilities? All these questions emerge from Janet Malcolm's fascinating study of the Sylvia Plath's myth.

A common practice in teaching and the publishing professions, reading a text multiple times is a key activity in the training of a reader, yet one that is largely ignored by research subjects. Laure Murat's survey of more than two hundred intellectuals raises questions that are as fundamental as they are inexhaustible.

“This is how one forgets things, how one forgets people, and how he forgets Cécile, and he'd like to prevent this gap that's gradually opening up in his memory from devouring his face, because forgetting is unfair and brutal, it swallows up the color of eyes, the shape of hands, perfumes and words, and leaves only the memory of death…