OTHER BLOOMERS & SHAKERS: Beatrice Wood on How to Rebel

by Nicole Wolverton

Her parents were in fact just fine with her desire to become an artist. So how does one rebel if there’s nothing to rebel against? Continue reading →

“A Young Man’s Movie” with an Old Man’s Soul

Truffaut took his cues from Roché’s autobiographical story, treating the push and pull of loyalty, love, jealousy, and neediness with sympathy and an almost elaborate delicacy. Continue reading →

Jules et Jim et Henri-Pierre et François

by Lisa Peet

Roché may have been a senior citizen when he wrote Jules et Jim in 1943—it was eventually published by Gallimard some ten years later—but he was young at heart. He was in the right place at the right Bohemian time for most of his life. Continue reading →