In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

Now, at last, with People’s Choice Literature, by the writer/artist/composer Tom Comitta, a new “scientist” has taken up the ...

Gertrude Stein (from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century), 1980 Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.28 cm.) Frame: 46 x 38 x 1 in. (116.84 x 96.52 x 2.54 cm.

Author John Birdsall dishes about his new history of LGBTQ+ food writers and chefs, and how queer cookery can meet the moment ...

It was biography, according to Gertrude Stein, that truly fulfilled the novel’s zeal for showing the full sweep of a life, and the genre has stayed faithful to its obsessive interest in ...

While writing Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, a biography of the American writer whose name now immediately evokes the golden age of 1920s Paris, I often felt like a detective, searching through the ...

Biography can be the gateway to understanding and, more than that, to enjoyment. The Delphi modernists list now includes Carson McCullers, Dos Passos, Camus and Katherine Mansfield. Gertrude Stein is ...

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...

The full story of their love affair can only now be told, uncensored, in an afterlife that Wade captures so vividly here. Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade Faber £20, 480 pages ...

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 charlatan.

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 charlatan. A ...