In de Beauvoir’s fiction of the late 1960s — primary sources of this show devised by performer Jillian Murray and director Susanne Chaundy — disgust for the ageing and increasingly sexless self is a ...

'Bust of Simone de Beauvoir in profile' (circa 1946), by Alberto Giacometti. FONDATION GIACOMETTI Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was held prisoner in a stalag near Trier, Germany until March 1941, when ...

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 ...

From Elena Ferrante’s fictional Neapolitan Quartet to Dolly Alderton’s memoir Everything I Know About Love, books mapping fierce female friendships, as strong as a romantic love, have become hugely ...

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 ...

The Odisha High Court has quashed a rape complaint filed by a woman against her partner of nine years. The Odisha HC observed that the relationship not culminating into marriage could be a source of ...

Before we see any of the work at London’s Amar Gallery, we’re already burdened by that most famous of surnames. Born in 1910, Hélène de Beauvoir became an artist of modest renown. Her poetic, often ...

COMMENTARY: The roots of the current transgender movement and man-hating feminism can be traced back to the theories of two despairing French philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir and her lover Jean-Paul ...

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, ...