Two recent examples hit home why the semicolon, otherwise despised by writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut, is indispensable to the art and architecture of prose. “They clung to ancient ...

The foundational work of modern feminism has had a surprisingly shabby publishing history, said Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon.com. Though Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex influenced generations of ...

Simone and Nelson in Love (In English & French) Simone de Beauvoir was a feminist writer, existentialist philosopher, and public intellectual. She is closely associated with her life-long polyamorous ...

During the 1980s, fresh out of high school, I embarked on a six-month adventure to Paris, teaching German and English to a 12-year-old girl and exploring the city of Balzac, Rodin and the American ...

Deirdre Bair’s memoir of writing the biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett is a compelling story of an early feminist’s struggle to be taken seriously At 84, Deirdre Bair has authored ...

Simone de Beauvoir Studies (SdBS) is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing scholarship on themes relevant to Simone de Beauvoir’s legacy, such as gender and sexuality, race ...

Inseparable. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith. Ecco; 176 pages; $26.99. Published in Britain as “The Inseparables”. Translated by Lauren Elkin. Vintage Classics; £12.99 IN 1958, IN ...

Simone de Beauvoir Studies (SdBS) is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing scholarship on themes relevant to Simone de Beauvoir’s legacy, such as gender and sexuality, race ...

THE France into which Simone de Beauvoir was born on the ninth of January, 1908, though fairly solidly bourgeois, was in the throes of one of its periodic crises. The country had just been shaken to ...

The role of women in the Western world saw a major shift in the 1950s as women left the home to enter the workforce by choice rather than circumstance. By the late 1960s, women were realizing that ...