THE TRAGEDY OF FELIX FRANKFURTER: FROM CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO REACTIONARY JUSTICE by Paul Finkelman

“…When nominated to the court, there were high hopes he would follow Holmes and Brandeis in leading a progressive Court that would protect civil liberties and minority rights. …”
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« Mon seul Shakespeare » by Jacques Nichet

“…He will now do everything in his power to divert this tragedy from its furious course. Vincentio suddenly makes improvised decisions, invents unexpected stratagems to counter the commands of the blackmailing deputy.  …”
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Le continent noir du désir masculin : Colet et Flaubert, encore by Barbara Vinken

“…Few correspondences are as distressingly surprising to the reader as the letters between Louise Colet and Gustave Flaubert. The hope entertained by every reader of a happy love story has rarely been so disappointed. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…Crapalachia is a threnody for a wounded region that complicates imagined hierarchies of center and periphery and blends the worlds of fact and fiction as well as tragedy and comedy. The semi-autobiography mines so deeply for privation that, at its close, it lays bare some of the most hopeful principles of American transcendentalism. …”
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« Moments of Vision » : l'écriture de Thomas Hardy by Stéphanie Bernard

“…At the end of his career as a novelist, Hardy wrote dark stories, tragedies. The equivocal quality of these works can also be found in the poems : dealing with the loss of his wife Emma, the writer hesitates between the hope to find her again and the recognition of the inevitable failure of his quest, between the illusion of a second chance and the harsh acknowledgment of facts. …”
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