"Life-changing" for some, hateable to others, Miranda July's wildly successful erotic novel All Fours about the female ...

This was a syncretic tale of the Sundarbans that was reinterpreted into being at Goethe-Institut Bangladesh on Saturday, June ...

The scientific perspective offered by the album art forces the viewer to look through Lorde’s body, but we are also looking ...

Who? Emmeline headed the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote. She was named by Time as one ...

Brigitte Bardot reflects on the stardom she escaped from more than 50 years ago in “Bardot” the doc about the iconic French ...

The Diary also has a motto… entertain our readers. And we never stray from this maxim, as you’ll discover while reading the following ...

Banksy's new mural in Marseille is not the first image he has connected to the history of ideas. A Banksy expert reveals the philosophy behind these popular artworks.

Christine de Pisan helped craft the beautifully illustrated manuscripts of her literary creations. Using her experience as manager of a scriptorium, she oversaw the work of skilled miniaturists to ...

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.

Ernaux often refers to Simone de Beauvoir, whose “Second Sex” sought to show how a woman’s choices, decisions, and even thoughts were molded by economic and social conditions.