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How Plants Helped Colette Satisfy an Insatiable Desire

How Plants Helped Colette Satisfy an Insatiable Desire

Damon Young on Colette's Life in the Garden

By Damon Young | April 13, 2020

The Many Ways We Create the 'Other'

The Many Ways We Create the 'Other'

Louise Aronson on the Contemporary Othering of the Elderly

By Louise Aronson | June 25, 2019

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

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

Ellena Savage on the Complicated Past, Present, and Future of Pools

By Ellena Savage | June 12, 2019

When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

The Start of a Seven-Month Affair That Changed Both Writers' Lives

By Colin Asher | April 17, 2019

Why Have Writers Neglected Elderly Lovers?

Why Have Writers Neglected Elderly Lovers?

On Desire and Longing Later in Life

By Susan Gubar | November 21, 2018

Simone de Beauvoir:

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

The Author of The Second Sex... Calling It Like She Sees It

By Simone de Beauvoir | November 9, 2018

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Looking for Paris's Old Left Bank in the Footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir

By Marta Bausells | July 24, 2018

10 Literary Diss Tracks

By Emily Temple | April 9, 2018

The Spiritual Sisters of Simone de Beauvoir

By Agnès Poirier | February 22, 2018

The Fine Art of Falling to Pieces

The Fine Art of Falling to Pieces

On the Literature of Romantic Abandonment

By B.D. McClay | February 14, 2018

An Existential Reading List for Your End Times' Crisis

An Existential Reading List for Your End Times' Crisis

Anne Gisleson Suggests Some Texts for the Long, Dark Night of the Soul

By Anne Gisleson | August 21, 2017

The Time Murakami Met Carver (and Other Literary Meet-Cutes)

The Time Murakami Met Carver (and Other Literary Meet-Cutes)

Famous Writers in the Wild, Talking to Each Other

By Emily Temple | July 25, 2017

How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

Without defying limits and social conventions, There would be no cool

By Joel Dinerstein | June 19, 2017

Famous Literary Relationships from Best to Worst

Famous Literary Relationships from Best to Worst

This valentine's day, why not judge yourself against your favorite writerly romance?

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2017

Literature in a Time of War: A Reading List

Literature in a Time of War: A Reading List

Simone de Beauvoir, Hans Fallada, Marghanita Laski and More

By Chris Cleave | May 27, 2016

At the Existentialist Café

At the Existentialist Café

Sarah Bakewell

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 24, 2016

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