A tragic LGBTQ love story that the great feminist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir presumed was "too intimate" to publish during her lifetime – has finally come out. Thirty-four years after her ...

While it would take years of study to fully understand the work of these great philosophers, they have all left us with short quotes that are instantly intriguing. Each is a conversation starter, an ...

Hypatia, Vol. 14, No. 4, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Autumn, 1999), pp. 36-49 (14 pages) For Simone de Beauvoir, the opposition of subjects is not inescapable as it may be resolved by a ...

Intellectual, philosophical, literary, rebellious, Simone de Beauvoir spoke a mile a minute, and wrote quickly, too — novels, essays, a play, four memoirs. She was an atheist, bisexual, pioneer ...

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 ...

While pioneering philosopher Simone de Beauvoir is famously buried adjacent to fellow philosopher and long-term partner Jean-Paul Sartre, during her adult life de Beauvoir only ever lived with one man ...

In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir remembers that as a child, she imagined her best friend, Élisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, dying, and her schoolteacher announcing that Zaza had been called ...

More welcome than the arrival of roses and bare legs and platform sandals this spring is the new edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s wild and unruly masterpiece, The Second Sex, which should be read much ...

NEW YORK — Carrie Ahern isn’t one of those contemporary choreographers who makes a dance and moves on. She really digs her heels into a piece, and before you know it, she’s created a multiyear project ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. As 1981 began, I had ten free days between the holidays and the start of the new semester, when I ...