Tag: Simone de Beauvoir

Fear, Loathing and Feistiness in Writing about Sex

How to comprehend our own sexual complexities before they inevitably seep into the characters we wish to convey? How not to get it wrong? Must we confine ourselves to what ...

by kitcat • 14th March 202313th March 2023

Literature

Spinster, Schminster: The Destruction of a Perfectly Good Word

There is a good book to be written about spinsterhood, writes Joanna Pocock, but Kate Bolick’s Spinster isn’t it.

by joanna-pocock • 28th September 201528th September 2015

Interviews

The Second Sex

We interview french editor Jean-Luc Maxence discussing gender, Jung, Simone de Beauvoir, and why he feels we can celebrate the differences between the sexes, but not entirely eliminate them.

by Mia Funk • 22nd July 201522nd July 2015

On Writing

More Writing About Writing: I’m Still Here

Why write? Reece Choules attempts to answer the question while watching a game of football.

by ReeceChoules • 4th September 20144th September 2014