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Gertrude Stein

February 2024

  • Gertrude Stein.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Gertrude Stein

    The modernist author was born 150 years ago but her writing still feels transgressive – here are some good places to begin

March 2022

  • Alyssa Simon and Natasha Byrne in The Marriage of Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein.

    The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review – upstaged by wedding guests

    This fantasy ceremony for the modernist couple is too preoccupied with the famous men cavorting around them

July 2021

  • In this handout frame released by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, police officers and paramedics carry Stsiapan Latypau, a Belarusian activist who was attempted to kill himself during a court hearing to protest political repression into an ambulance in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Stsiapan Latypau stabbed himself in the neck with a pen while sitting in a cage during the court hearings Tuesday, according to the Viasna human rights center. He has been hospitalized and put in artificial coma after the incident. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via AP)

    Flogged, imprisoned, murdered: today, being a poet is a dangerous job

    In India, the author of a viral poem about Narendra Modi’s handling of Covid-19 has been demonised. But all around the world, from Myanmar to Belarus, poets are being persecuted

May 2020

  • Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Beach

    Legendary Paris bookshop reveals reading habits of illustrious clientele

    Newly digitised lending cards from Shakespeare and Company uncover the choices of luminaries including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein

April 2020

  • Gertrude Stein, c. 1936

    A book that changed me
    How a book by Gertrude Stein taught me to write about myself

    Deborah Levy
    The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas investigates the art and artifice of the genre – and transformed how I thought about it, says the author Deborah Levy

December 2018

  • ‘The aphorism talks to you as if you were an idiot’ … clockwise from top left, aphorists Dorothy Parker, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde and Mae West.

    'A rose with a thousand petals' … what makes an aphorism – and is this a golden age?

    Forget haikus, epigrams, proverbs, maxims, adages and riddles. If you’re needing a sliver of wisdom, try an aphorism. There are certainly plenty around …

May 2018

  • James Joyce<br>Irish novelist and poet James Joyce (1882 - 1941), Zurich, Switzerland, circa 1918. (Photo by C. Ruf/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

    Reading group
    Reading group: which modernist book should we read this month?

    From James Joyce to HG Wells, the efforts of 20th-century writers to find fresh forms for new times have not grown old. Please share your innovative choices

October 2016

  • Shakespeare and Company

    Shakespeare and Company: a 'socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore' – in pictures

    An English-language bookshop founded by George Whitman on the banks of the Seine in Paris has been hosting writers and selling the occasional book for 65 years. Krista Halverson explores the history of a countercultural institution and the legacy of Sylvia Beach

April 2016

  • Illustration by Romy Blumel.

    From gay conspiracy to queer chic: the artists and writers who changed the world

    For years gay people were tolerated in the arts – and were then accused of taking over. Gregory Woods traces the networks of writers, artists, intellectuals and film stars who transformed 20th-century culture

May 2015

  • Picasso and Lee Miller after the liberation of Paris in 1944. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2015. All rights reserved

    Jones on art
    Was Picasso a misogynist?

    The greatest artist of the 20th century has been characterised as a bully, a narcissist and a man who feared as well as desired women. But are the stories really true? Jonathan Jones tackles the six million euro question

April 2015

  • A scene from Pablo by Julie Birmant and Clement Oubrerie.

    Graphic novel of the month
    Pablo review – an intimate portrait of Picasso

    This graphic biography beautifully recreates the painter’s early years in Montmartre with his lover, Fernande Olivier

March 2015

  • Great Gatsby

    Books blog
    Was 1925 really the best year for literature?

  • San Francisco

    Reading American cities
    Books about San Francisco: readers' picks

January 2015

  • Hats

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Colored Hats by Gertrude Stein

    Some think of Stein’s poetry as a literary version of cubism, but her embrace of ordinary objects here seems more radical – and more mysterious, writes Carol Rumens

November 2012

  • John Cage: As It Is – review

    John Cage's interpretations of texts by EE Cummings and Gertrude Stein are among the highlights of this set of early works, writes Nicholas Kenyon

October 2011

  • Matisse-painting-Paris

    Matisse, Cézanne and Picasso: The Stein Family – review

    An exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, connects Gertrude Stein and her siblings with the early 20th-century avant-garde

October 2010

  • Corrections and clarifications
    Corrections and clarifications

    Serpentine Gallery map event | Prince Oblonsky | US navy Seals | Gertrude Stein v Gertrude Steiner

July 2010

  • rejection letter

    Rejection letters: Just saying no

    Andy Warhol got one, so did Jimi Hendrix and Gertrude Stein. Tim Dowling remembers the sting of receiving a rejection letter

June 2009

  • Gertrude Stein

    Theatre blog
    Who's afraid of Gertrude Stein?

    Alexis Soloski: I admit she's a bore on the page, but the American writer's nonsensical plays can bring out the best in directors

November 2007

  • Double trouble

    Janet Malcolm's investigation into Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, Two Lives, doesn't quite catch light, says Kathryn Hughes

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