In an obscure corner of Gary, Ind., called Miller Beach, there’s a beat-up little cottage that deserves a historical marker as a birthing place of feminism. There, amid the Indiana sand dunes, the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In this new biography academic Kate Kirkpatrick uses recently translated materials to mount a spirited defence of Simone de Beauvoir’s ...

Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by her ...

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...

Anyone interested in Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre will already know their situation. Very French, one might say. What makes de Beauvoir's letters to Sartre so wonderful to read isn't, then, ...

Could existentialism be ripe for a comeback? Today’s young people have been described as “the most fluid generation in history”, so perhaps GenZ are in tune with the convention-flouting, ...

Deirdre Bair, who as an unknown writer half a century ago scored a coup by getting the reclusive Samuel Beckett to agree to let her write his biography, then secured the same permission from another ...

Earlier today, the LA Review of Books published an interview with Jewish book cover designer, Peter Mendelsund. Even if you don’t recognize the name, if you’re a reader you’ve almost certainly seen ...

Simone De Beauvoir is, surprisingly, the first woman to merit the distinction and while the purpose and size of the book (180 pages) do not allow for new archival research, Tidd does an excellent job ...

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