Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: The Black Lizard Overcoming long term illness, controlling her money and eloping to revolutionary Italy: Fiona Sampson's new biography of Elizabeth Barrett ...

Martin Provost's second biopic of a French female artist stars Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain as Violette Leduc and her mentor/object of desire Simone de Beauvoir. By Boyd van Hoeij The film ...

The story of a passionate affair between two adolescent schoolgirls, written by one of France's leading lesbian novelists, will be published in Paris this week, nearly 50 years after it was banned by ...

No frothy French confection, "Violette," director Martin Provost's semi-bio of the feminist memoirist Violette Leduc, is -- much like Leduc's taboo-toppling writing -- frank, harsh, emotionally ...

Overcoming long-term illness, controlling her money and eloping to revolutionary Italy: Fiona Sampson's new biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning focuses on her as someone interested in inventing ...

Emmanuelle Devos triumphs in this sharply observed yet sympathetic biopic of a trailblazing feminist author. The trailblazing feminist writer Violette Leduc gets a biopic fully worthy of her complex ...

Set near the end of World War II, Violette follows the life of controversial French author Violette Leduc as she struggles to make a living from her writings about female sexuality. Her every action ...

Peggy Reynolds compares notes with Fiona Sampson on the writing of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and literature about adoption. Plus the queer writing of a pair of French authors. Show more Overcoming ...