“I t is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in Being and Nothingness. It is as ...

Olivier Todd, who has died aged 95, achieved celebrity in France as a war correspondent, intimate of Sartre and biographer of ...

A group of college grads finds themselves on a long road to nowhere in Alexander Ullom’s debut.

Jean-Paul Sartre, a very short, very cheerful Parisian, lectured at the Carnegie Chamber Music Hall last week without provoking a riot or a single refined cry of “Salaud! ” or “Fumiste!,” ...

The author took longer to come out as working-class than as gay. His newly translated memoir confronts poverty and racism in the milieu he fled ...

Jean-Paul Sartre once said, “Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself.” This idea — that we create ourselves entirely through the choices we make — is both liberating and ...

When it opened in 1962, the bar was a hangout for writers such as Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It had lost some of its luster but is now being revived by ...

Audience members were plunged into perdition for last weekend’s showings of “No Exit”. Directed by senior Acting/Directing (A ...

Aware that Mlle. de Beauvoir is regarded in Paris as the female intellectual counterpart of Jean-Paul Sartre, we were all set for a grim half hour. Well, surprise! Mlle. de B. is the prettiest ...

including Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Guy de Maupassant and Charles Baudelaire. – Laura French The Montparnasse Tower Observation Deck claims to have the best views in Paris – and once ...