The saying that “there is no there there” has influenced talk on Capitol Hill—and a sculpture in California. Ben Zimmer explains.

Gertrude Stein, doyenne of American letters, is the center of two exhibitions in San Francisco.

Visitors are greeted at the entrance to the exhibit by a cascading series of verbal and visual portraits: the headline from an April 1935 issue of the San Francisco Examiner: “Gertrude Stein arrives ...

An audio recording of Stein reading the word portraits echoes throughout the room. “Her voice is more like Eleanor Roosevelt’s than I’m ready for,” says Corn.

Jewish art collector and writer Gertrude Stein was born 150 years ago. She was a lesbian icon, hosted Picasso and translated antisemitic speeches.

Gertrude Stein was born in Pennsylvania on Feb. 3, 1874. She was educated briefly in Europe and then at Radcliffe, studying psychology under William James, whose influence runs through her work ...

But Stein’s meek, self-sacrificing mother, who died when Gertrude was 14, could not contain the domineering temperament of her husband, whose death three years later cast the family adrift.

Gertrude Stein is famously noted that, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” That was written by Stein as part of the 1913 poem “Sacred Emily.” In the case of McAleer v. Geisinger Medical Center ...

These Matisse masterpieces are part of the art collection of writer Gertrude Stein and her brothers, Americans from San Francisco who set up in Paris and became legendary patrons of avant-garde art.

Fresh Air's book critic reviews Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcom's joint biography of Gertrude Stein and her longtime companion, Alice B. Toklas.