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Although '27'--the opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek about the lives of Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and their circle of friends--had its world premiere at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ...
In a 1934 New York Times Magazine interview, Stein declared: “Hitler should have received the Nobel Peace Prize ... Gertrude Stein, Fascist Love Thief? Copied to clipboard. For Web: Copy HTML.
Murasaki Shikibu, Miguel de Cervantes and Gertrude Stein, with the hopes that Stein might instigate a dinner table debate on the origin of the modern novel between Cervantes’s “Don Quixote ...
Why do we care about Gertrude Stein? Two exhibits in Washington DC show that her influence extends far beyond the Jazz Age. I've often wondered whether approaching a subject from a standpoint of ...
When I first visited “The Steins Collect” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in late April, I had wondered about the omission of Gertrude Stein’s collaboration with France’s pro-Nazi Vichy ...
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, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”.Depending on who you spoke to, she was either a genius or a ...