An account from Carole Seymour-Jones’s new biography of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, A Dangerous Liaison (Overlook, due September 10), about Algren and de Beauvoir’s first meeting in ...

Deirdre Bair, who as an unknown writer half a century ago scored a coup by getting the reclusive Samuel Beckett to agree to let her write his biography, then secured the same permission from another ...

In this sensationalist account of the unconventional private and public lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Seymour-Jones (Painted Shadow) offers Sartre's “incestuous” relationship with ...

The Chicago-born curator Naomi Beckwith has been given free rein at the Palais de Tokyo to examine how American artists responded to thinkers from France. By Emily LaBarge “The Visionaries,” by ...

They wrote side by side in Parisian cafes, working late into the night over glasses of whisky while honing each other’s ground-breaking philosophical theories. Intellectually in love and physically ...

Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by her ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In this new biography academic Kate Kirkpatrick uses recently translated materials to mount a spirited defence of Simone de Beauvoir’s ...

What do we think about when we think about existentialism? We may think about a philosophy centred on individual existence and free choice, but we also think about jazz, dark turtle-necks, Paris, ...

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...