Haitian-American performing artist Malou Beauvoir is a captivating, highly emotive singer-songwriter and actor who brings to her artistry the unique amalgamation of her multi-cultural influences and ...

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent. But ...

Inhabited by a succession of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans, Britain has spent centuries simmering into a confusing toponymic soup of counties, cities and castles. Over time, ...

The first show of the artist’s work in the UK is both a celebration and an act of historical correction. Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène de Beauvoir (unknown date ...

As the leading feminist philosopher of the 20th century, Simone de Beauvoir’s best-selling book The Second Sex exemplified the power of writing to bring women’s experiences out from the shadows and ...

A woman stands, concentrating on her work. She’s painting. The bristles are a good couple of feet from her eyes, a painted fingernail holding the long brush nearly by the tip. It’s a black-and-white ...

The younger sister of Simone, Hélène fell victim to her sibling's long-casting shadow – but a London exhibition may see her work re-evaluated A woman stands, concentrating on her work. She’s painting.

On the 95th death anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s dear friend, Elisabeth Lacoin, we reread Beauvoir’s Les Inséparables or The Inseparables as a tribute to their friendship. Set in 1920s France, ...

Jen Webb has receive funding from the Australian Research Council. The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes ...

The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries. It’s a wild ...