Intellectual, philosophical, literary, rebellious, Simone de Beauvoir spoke a mile a minute, and wrote quickly, too — novels, essays, a play, four memoirs. She was an atheist, bisexual, pioneer ...

In the popular imagination, Simone de Beauvoir is best known as the foremother of contemporary feminism, and as the turbaned, chain-smoking, glamorously intellectual companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.

COMMENTARY: The roots of the current transgender movement and man-hating feminism can be traced back to the theories of two despairing French philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir and her lover Jean-Paul ...

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. But ...

Chandrarathna Bandara With a title reminiscent of Simone de Beauvoir’s Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome this most ...

“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 ...