French feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir's "mad passion" for a lover 18 years her junior has been revealed in a letter published for the first time Sunday.
It also shows that she was never sexually satisfied by her partner, the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
The writer, who condemned marriage as an "obscene" institution which enslaved women in her classic book, "The SecondRead more
Music icon Bob Dylan has delivered his long-awaited Nobel lecture, citing Buddy Holly and "The Odyssey" among his inspirations, a relief for the Swedish Academy after it honoured the songwriter with its prestigious literature prize for the first time.
"The speech is extraordinary and, as one might expect, eloquent. Now that the lecture has been delivered, the Dylan adventure isRead more