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2020-01-31 | As a student, de Beauvoir experienced love as injustice and suffering. She dreamed of a freer, fairer love, and then theorized it into being more »
2013-10-30 | Albert Camus's writings on the Algerian war are marked by their honesty, consistency, even purity. His peers ? Sartre, de Beauvoir, Aron ? were cynical at best more »
2016-04-09 | Violette Leduc - thief, smuggler, writer, lesbian - articulated a feminism of lived experience. Not like her mentor, Simone de Beauvoir more »
2013-11-20 | For Simone de Beauvoir, it was a crushing weight. For Virginia Woolf, it meant feeling like the ?youngest person on the omnibus.' When artists age more »
2010-01-01 | 'Simone de Beauvoir''s translators and their critics have turned their disputes into a play where each acts the role assigned by theatrical cliché' more »
2020-04-10 | Simone de Beauvoir was often cast — to her chagrin — as a feminist heroine. Do the many biographies revealing her dark side change that? more »
2015-09-24 | Flaubert, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir: French intellectual culture was once the envy of the world. Now it’s mired in malaise more »
2011-01-01 | I envied her for her heart, Simone de Beauvoir said of Simone Weil, who abandoned intellectual life for the joyful suffering of manual labor more »
2019-07-31 | Ain't no party like an existentialist party. De Beauvoir smoked joints. Sartre took amphetamines and mescaline. But alcohol was tops more »
2022-06-15 | Why do young people treat old people so poorly? For Simone de Beauvoir, it’s the terror of their own aging more »
2010-01-01 | 'Simone de Beauvoir didn''t deny the basic biological and erotic differences between men and women. But she could never combine difference with equality' more »
2019-05-25 | She had Sartre for conversation; he, only drunks and gamblers. Inside the short-lived long-distance relationship of Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir more »
2019-08-26 | The Second Sex at 70. De Beauvoir, who claimed that a woman’s life should not be reduced to an erotic plot, has been reduced to an erotic plot more »
2021-01-15 | Stop reading like a critic. It’s time we treat Beckett and de Beauvoir the same way we do Beyoncé and the Boss — with devotion more »
2020-10-22 | Ruthlessly self-absorbed, obsessed with power, a sexual predator — Simone de Beauvoir was not a good person. But at least she stood for something more »
2019-10-03 | Despite their love, Beauvoir found Sartre rather pathetic. His skirt-chasing didn’t help — nor did his performance in bed more »
2021-08-25 | The romance between Sartre and Beauvoir was haunted by the friend whom she wrote about again and again more »
2012-08-16 | Read Claude Lanzmann's memoir for his portrait of Beauvoir, his sometime lover. Read him on the making of Shoah. Read him as a case study of vainglory more »
2020-10-19 | Alexis de Tocqueville mastered many styles. He could be romantic, clever, or ruthlessly withering more »
2013-02-15 | Doer and dreamer, realist and romantic: Charles de Gaulle was an exceptional ? and exceptionally arrogant ? character more »
2018-04-28 | What Frida Kahlo is to Mexico, Julia de Burgos is to Puerto Rico. Except that de Burgos isn't well known to the rest of the world. Why not? more »
2012-12-30 | The Alain de Botton formula: Make high-culture allusions and quote promiscuously. Season liberally with a tone of wry knowingness more »
2013-03-30 | The first flâneur. Opium was Thomas De Quincy's nemesis. It prevented him from writing. Then he made addiction his subject more »
2022-06-04 | Derrida, de Man, Geoffrey Hartman — deconstruction was a charismatic yet politically vapid school of thought more »
2013-01-24 | Gérard de Villiers's best-selling espionage thrillers also serve as intelligence drop boxes for spy agencies around the world more »
2011-01-01 | Agnes de Mille democratized ballet, injecting a dose of pop-art cheekiness into the ordered, insidery world of formal dance more »
2013-05-13 | Alain de Botton, purveyor of philosophy-flecked self-help, is much derided. But give him this: He has written the least sexy book about sex ever published more »
2013-05-28 | Modern misinterpretation has garbled the obscene but unpornographic thoughts of the Marquis de Sade. Still, echoes of his boudoir philosophy abound more »
2010-01-01 | Emotions trump rules. This is why, when we speak of moral role models, we think of their hearts, not their brains. Frans de Waal explains more »
2018-12-04 | Ghostwriters, noms de plume, plagiarism, forgery — the elements of literary hoaxing have a long history. But the rules have changed more »
2022-03-25 | Why would two ordinary schoolteachers steal a de Kooning, hang the painting in their bedroom, and drop hints about it? more »
2021-06-15 | Edward de Bono, champion of “lateral thinking” and many implausible creative-thinking schemes, has died. He was 88 more »
2011-01-01 | 'David Mamet''s conservative cri de coeur is smug, propagandistic, error-filled - and boring, too. Christopher Hitchens explains' more »
2015-01-13 | Like a Victorian social reformer, Alain de Botton wants to lead the masses away from shallow consumerism. And he wants to make a buck more »
2015-03-05 | The theological disclosures of Augustine and the earnestness of De Quincey have given way to a petty, low-stakes literature. Confession has been commodified more »
2010-01-01 | â?'I am myself the matter of my bookâ? wrote Michel de Montaigne. He knew that by being so, he was engaged in producing something wholly original more »
2014-03-05 | As a theorist, Paul de Man was suspicious of narratives. That emphasis stemmed from his own experience constructing a false ? but plausible ? life story more »
2017-03-21 | Deconstruction: a detective story. A new play about Paul de Man shows how something monstrous can begin as a cavalier disregard for truth more »
2011-01-01 | When Sergei Diaghilev emerged in fin-de-siècle St. Petersburg, ballet was passionless, mechanical, and dead. It was time for a new kind of dance more »
2017-09-28 | Alain de Botton wants to teach you how love really works. So he wrote a novel full of insights too trite to be even superficial more »
2019-07-06 | Step aside, Pollock and de Kooning. Deep-pocketed buyers are losing interest in abstract art. What do they crave? SpongeBob SquarePants with Xs on his eyes more »
2018-08-29 | Francis Fukuyama's dalliance with deconstruction. He studied with de Man, Derrida, and Barthes. Any memories? "I decided it was total bullshit" more »
2021-09-15 | Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable has now been published - against her wishes. It's heavy-handed, schematic, and thin more »
2012-08-19 | The Rotterdam thieves made off with a Picasso, a Monet, a Matisse, a Gauguin, a Meyer de Hann. Wait, who? It must be a clue! more »
2013-01-15 | Is it pretentious to say 'status quo? or ?cul de sac?? George Orwell thought so. No surprise, then, that his advice on language sometimes curdled into the absurd more »
2014-05-26 | Alain de Botton's up. Altruistic genius or self-help huckster, the pop philosopher has gained a level of influence that's difficult to deny more »
2014-11-08 | New York culture at midcentury: Dylan, Trilling, Pollock, de Kooning. Want to read a book that captures that moment? Stay away from this one more »
2010-01-01 | Americans made a "refined and intelligent egotism," said Alexis de Tocqueville, into "the pivot" on which the machine of democracy turns more »
2016-10-05 | The Marquis de Sade as your guide to the modern office? His 120 Days of Sodom explains it all: hierarchy, accounting, bonuses, boredom more »
2020-08-27 | Olavo de Carvalho, a 73-year-old right-wing autodidact, is on a mission: He wants to become the Brazilian Gramsci more »
2022-06-25 | Critics of deconstruction have damned Derrida and de Man without engaging their ideas. That argumentation by association leads nowhere more »
2013-10-16 | Playwright, poet, publisher, scourge ? Karl Kraus sat in judgment of fin de siècle Vienna. He was brilliant, and damn near unreadable more »
2013-10-22 | The literary theorist Paul de Man was a charmer, bully, bigamist, and anti-Semite. We knew that. Turns out he was a convicted criminal, too more »
2012-08-16 | A literary history of sex. When it comes to debauchery, to voyeuristic enjoyment of pain, Christian Grey is no Marquis de Sade more »
2012-08-16 | Charles Rosen likes difficult prose. Take the Marquis de Sade's writings - difficult because they're repellent but "fascinating because they are so sordid" more »
2014-03-22 | Alain de Botton is a Twitter aphorist, a playful essayist, a self-promoter, a self-help guru. What he is not is a philosopher more »
2010-01-01 | Charles de Gaulle was a colossus for most of my life, writes Neal Ascherson: malign, conceited, aloof, and worth dying for. He understood the tempests of his century more »
2010-01-01 | 'Michel de Montaigne hated the cruelty of religion: "It is putting a very high price on one''s conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account"' more »
2018-08-09 | Life finds a way — but should it? The de-extinction movement promises to bring back mammoths and dinosaurs. Perhaps this hasn't been adequately thought through more »
2020-05-16 | Love and theft. How a stolen de Kooning ended up in the master bedroom of a pink stucco house in New Mexico more »
2019-03-13 | Charles de Gaulle, intellectual. He hated Proust, enjoyed the work of Henri Bergson, and, even as president, read two or three books a week more »
2023-05-16 | An extreme figure even in decadent fin-de-siècle Paris, Jean Lorrain was a dandy, Satanist, drinker of ether, and highly paid writer more »
2022-01-12 | Spanish intellectual culture treasures Miguel de Unamuno’s 1936 denunciation of fascism. But did it really happen? more »
2021-05-20 | Edmund de Waal’s tour of belle époque Paris is singular in its preoccupation — or obsession — with things more »
2015-01-22 | 120 Days, once hidden in a wall of the Bastille, is one of the most valuable manuscripts on earth. And its author, the Marquis de Sade, has become a hero in the country that once scorned him more »
2018-05-12 | “The evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Spinoza.” At the age of 23, the future philosopher was expelled from his Jewish community. What had he done? more »
2021-01-29 | Geniuses are often obsessive, self-centered, and offensive. As Edmond de Goncourt put it: Almost no one loves a genius until he or she is dead more »
2013-09-16 | Karl Kraus, fin-de-siecle satirist, read a lot of stuff he hated, so he could hate it with authority. Jonathan Franzen sees a kindred spirit more »
2014-04-23 | Deconstruction is dead. So why the interest in Paul de Man? Because his end marked the end of something that transcended theory more »
2014-08-06 | The sorrow and survival of François-René de Chateaubriand. "If I had killed myself, nothing would have been known of my catastrophe" more »
2013-11-30 | Karl Kraus, the chief gossip of fin-de-siècle Vienna, lived in a glittering and embattled world. And he was the great hater more »
2013-12-13 | Away with abstraction! Philosophers are physical beings, insisted Miguel de Unamuno. It is man, not ideas, that is the subject of all philosophy more »
2012-08-17 | Charles de Gaulle was a genius at blurring the line between myth and history. His legend is a comfortable blanket in which all can wrap themselves more »
2013-03-26 | ?Bird in the Baroness's Boudoir.' For Nica de Koenigswarter, eccentric jazz hound, life got complicated when Charlie Parker died at her house more »
2015-04-01 | When, in 1967, Noam Chomsky said the responsibility of intellectuals was to ?expose the lies of governments,' it was a minority view. Now it's de rigueur more »
2016-10-06 | Romantic acolyte, professional doppelgänger, transcendental hack: Thomas De Quincey’s drug addiction may be the least interesting thing about him more »
2011-01-01 | Michel Houellebecq thinks Alexis de Tocqueville has real prophetic powers. In fact, he predicted Houellebecq himself, an artist who believes in love and in eternal, unlimited happiness more »
2015-06-10 | Critics says Alain de Botton is a marketer of solipsism, a moron. But does their ire just highlight their own unwillingness to engage the public? more »
2011-01-01 | 'Harrowing essays, political tracts, literary criticism: The extraordinary life''s work of Thomas De Quincey. Not bad for a drink-soaked opium addict' more »
2021-10-09 | The history of xenophobia has less to do with the ancient Greeks than with the Boxer uprising and a stenographer named Jean Martin de Saintours more »
2014-01-29 | In 1979, Mark Edmundson tumbled out of the garden of sex, drugs, and rock ?n? roll into the Yale English department: tweed, sherry, de Man, Derrida, and sensible shoes more »
2017-01-11 | When Willem de Kooning heard of Jackson Pollock’s death, he celebrated: “I’m number one.” Why do some artistic relationships nourish artists, while others tear them apart? more »
2017-02-04 | Freud and Bacon. Matisse and Picasso. Degas and Manet. Pollock and de Kooning. Friendship between artists is marked by the longing to be close and the need to stand apart more »
2014-06-23 | Alain de Botton (446,000 followers) suggests a Twitter sabbath. ?We need, on occasion, to be able to go to a quieter place.' Leon Wieseltier (0 followers) is not convinced more »
2019-02-15 | When early natural philosophers wrote a book, it might be read by 500 people. Then came Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and a revolution in pop-science writing more »
2019-03-07 | The bad boy of French literature. The real Cyrano de Bergerac dueled, drank, and chased women. When he was 36, the Jesuits reputedly arranged for him to have an accident more »
2019-12-31 | As an essayist, D.H. Lawrence could produce something brilliant on almost any topic. Consider his tour-de-force “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine” more »
2017-03-07 | Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac grew up speaking joual, a working-class dialect of Canadian French. Later, going by “Jack,” he would shape the nature of Americana more »
2011-01-01 | 'Charles de Gaulle''s life shows the truth in the claim that no man is a prophet in his own land. Le grand Charles did not always enjoy reverence in his homeland' more »
2016-03-03 | Pink teacups, crumbling frescoes, and a brown typewriter. What can one learn from a journey to James Baldwin’s house in Saint-Paul de Vence? A great deal, it turns out more »
2011-01-01 | 'In Bloomsbury, wedged between a cafe and a beauty salon, is the School of Life, Alain de Botton''s latest venture in telling us how we ought to live' more »
2023-02-25 | The manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom” survived the storming of the Bastille and was later smuggled out of Germany just before the Nazis took over more »
2016-10-15 | Degas vs. Manet, Matisse vs. Picasso, Pollock vs. de Kooning, Bacon vs. Freud. Other than knives through canvases and sexual intrigue, what makes an artistic rivalry memorable? more »
2016-11-01 | The godfather of crime fiction, Thomas De Quincey inhabited the dark fringe of Romanticism. He even applauded murder as one of the finer “arts” of life more »
2016-12-29 | Cinderella meets sadomasochism. Fairy tales have always departed from conventional morality, but in fin-de-siècle France, their deviance went further more »
2017-05-11 | Addicted to opium and always in debt, Thomas De Quincey fled his own child’s wake to escape a creditor. And yet he maintained a curious optimism more »
2016-04-04 | Thomas De Quincey's journey from riches to rags to posthumous fame as an opium eater began on a cheerless Sunday in 1804 more »
2016-05-06 | On April 6, 1922, Albert Einstein met Henri Bergson at Société française de philosophie. The encounter marks the beginning of philosophy's eclipse by science more »
2016-07-12 | What distinguishes a human being from a chestnut tree? It's the sort of question that preoccupied the apricot-cocktail-swilling set at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse more »
2018-02-19 | In Egypt, Flaubert grew ““ignobly plump,” took in striptease shows, and was dazzled by the country's colors. The color eau de Nil stems from such Egyptomania more »
2018-05-31 | It was “dreadful,” a “Potemkin city,” a “social hell.” Why did the great artists of fin de siècle Vienna hate their own city so much? more »
2017-06-02 | "One can be taught—and one needs to be taught—how to look," says Philippe de Montebello. "This is why I am so impatient with those who want to position their museum as a form of entertainment" more »