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“... In the right light, in the right mood, maybe these pictures could come fully to life again. Annie Cohen-Solal, the author of biographies of Sartre and the art dealer Leo Castelli, has written a compact book about Rothko’s life and art for Yale’s ‘Jewish Lives’ series, drawing freely on the literary critic James Breslin’s impressive ...”

“... Rationalist, provides a searching critical perspective on the latter. Of the two biographies, Annie Cohen-Solal’s brings readers into more intimate contact with Sartre’s hectic, self-generating but also self-devouring personality. It provides, as well, a more thorough account of his family background and year-by-year activities. The ...”

“... a glorious, full-colour-coded spreadsheet jigsaw, mapping the stories from the Sartre biographies (Annie Cohen-Solal, John Gerassi, Ronald Hayman) over those from the Beauvoir biographies (Deirdre Bair – very much the best; Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, Margaret Crosland). Check those against the crucial four volumes of Beauvoir’s ...”

“... programme last November, discussed the case of Eliot and that of Ezra Pound with Professor Ricks, Annie Cohen-Solal and Clive James. Professor Steiner began by discomfiting Ricks: there were, he remarked humorously, two attacks in the TLS which Professor Ricks, fresh from his transatlantic flight, would not have had time to come to terms with. A wan ...”

“... sharer’ in Beauvoir’s biography, and ruefully points out that while Sartre’s biographer Annie Cohen-Solal ‘speaks briefly and succinctly of Beauvoir’, Sartre figures on virtually every page of Beauvoir’s life history. Without ever stating a judgment, Bair provides a subtle and unsentimental analysis of the Beauvoir-Sartre pact, its ...”

“... were no less excited by his work than the Egyptians had been, but they too disappointed him. As Annie Cohen-Solal writes in her Life of Sartre from 1985, philosophers in Israel were still preoccupied by the ‘question of concrete relations with the Other’ in Being and Nothingness, but as Sartre told one audience, ‘that search is over … It no ...”