In the Cuban-Italian novelist’s Her Side of the Story, she confronts the falsity of romantic love.

Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi said that motherhood is a prison for women, and marriage a grave. She meant it ...

Already the home of the Tour de France, Paris has taken on a new character as an amateur cyclist’s city – and it’s a great ...

Last week, we had a talk with Simone de Beauvoir, the French novelist, playwright, and No. 2 Existentialist, just before she left town on a coast-to-coast lecture tour. Aware that Mlle.

The new Netflix film 'Lonely Planet,' set in Morocco, is rife with Orientalist stereotyping and features a dull romance ...

Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays ...

While developed countries have succeeded in mainstreaming women through sustainable efforts i.e. financial autonomy, quality ...

As their relationship ebbs and flows with the political climate, de Beauvoir draws on personal experience to examine notions of freedom, class, war, moral dilemmas and the role of women as Jean ...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel distinguished three kinds of history: that of participants or contemporary witnesses; a history ...

A burl wood coffee table (€2,000-€3,000) by the Italian photographer and designer Willy Rizzo is one of the many stunning ...

Ali Smith is an author, playwright, academic and journalist. Her work includes the 2014 novelHow to Be Both and the seasonal quartet, ending with Summer (2020). Sixty years ago, the French writer’s ...

Its guestbooks are filled with famous names like Andy Warhol, Lauren Bacall, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Albert Einstein, ...