Simone de Beauvoir

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought

Annabel Abbs-Streets on the Idiosyncratic Way the Beauvoirs Hiked Through the World

 
By Annabel Abbs  February 19, 2025
Craft

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
rebirth

Boundaries Dissolve: Joanna Biggs on Reading Ferrante With Other Women

By Joanna Biggs  June 1, 2023
The Hub

How Jean-Paul Sartre managed to spend his military service working on his novel.

By Emily Temple  September 20, 2022
The Hub

20 new paperbacks hitting shelves this September.

By Katie Yee  September 1, 2022
Coming of Age

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

By Satya Doyle Byock  July 26, 2022
The Hub

8 books perfectly summed up with out-of-context Derry Girls.

By Snigdha Koirala  January 19, 2022
Wilderness

Following the Paths of the Wild-Walking Women of the Past, from Nan Shepherd to Georgia O’Keeffe

By Annabel Abbs  September 9, 2021
Women Writers

Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

By Margaret Atwood  September 8, 2021
Daily Fiction

Inseparable

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 8, 2021
The Hub

20 new books to add your fall(!) reading list.

By Katie Yee  September 7, 2021
Grief

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

By Merissa Nathan Gerson  August 23, 2021
Reading Lists

How to Understand the 1960s in 11 Books

By Mike Bond  May 20, 2021
The Hub

Vive the erotic far left! Why Violette Leduc’s The Taxi needs a new translation.

By Jonny Diamond  April 7, 2021
The Hub

Simone de Beauvoir’s brutal rejection letter to Violette Leduc has been sold at auction.

By Walker Caplan  December 16, 2020
Feminism

Nicole Brossard on the Impossibility of Saying Everything

By Nicole Brossard  December 8, 2020
Writing Advice

Lauren Martin on Realizing Writing Advice Applies
to Life, Too

By Lauren Martin  December 7, 2020
New Books Network

The Fan Letters of Simone de Beauvoir

By New Books Network  October 26, 2020
Criticism

A Brief (But Not Too) History of
Literary Constipation

By Jessica Gross  September 24, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Unsent Letters from Lockdown: Emily Dickinson, Simone de Beauvoir, My Children

By Kerstin Preiwuss  June 2, 2020
Literary History

How Plants Helped Colette Satisfy an Insatiable Desire

By Damon Young  April 13, 2020
Society

The Many Ways We Create the ‘Other’

By Louise Aronson  June 25, 2019
Summer

The Swimming Pool: Fascist Blue Rectangle or Immersive Democratic Space?

By Ellena Savage  June 12, 2019
Love Affairs

When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

By Colin Asher  April 17, 2019
Essay

Why Have Writers Neglected Elderly Lovers?

By Susan Gubar  November 21, 2018
Criticism

Simone de Beauvoir: “How Many Bland and Dull Escapist Novels There Are!”

By Simone de Beauvoir  November 9, 2018
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