Ideas and Ideals: Reading de Beauvoir Today

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As book lovers, ardent feminists, and philosophers alike rejoice over the US release of Simone de Beauvoir’s never-before-published Inseparable (trans. by Sandra Smith, ed. Ecco), the latest installment of Ideas and Ideals: Strong Female Voices explores the question of female submission with philosophers and de Beauvoir experts Manon Garcia and Skye Cleary. Manon Garcia is the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy…

Panel Discussion: J-P Manchette’s N’Gustro Affair

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Join us for a panel discussion featuring Gary Indiana, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Luc Sante, and Alyson Waters, as we celebrate the publication of The N’Gustro Affair, by genre-redefining French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette. This program is presented in partnership with our friends at New York Review Books and Community Bookstore, and it will take place on Zoom. Please RSVP here. The N’Gustro Affair is a thinly…