Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas by Man Ray

Simone de Beauvoir’s studio, Montparnasse, Paris, March 1986, by Bettina Flitner

Toni Morrison dancing

Simone Leigh’s Loophole of Retreat at the Venice Biennale, 2022, photo by Claudia Rossini

Sylvia Beach and James Joyce outside Shakespeare & Co, Paris

Simone de Beauvoir

Jamaica Kincaid by Emil Wesolowski


rabbitholes . . .

Jamaica Kincaid, written interview with Paris Review

Hilma af Klint, film by Lasse Hallström

Simone Leigh, artist profile by Guggenheim

Tove, film by Zaida Bergroth

Chelsie Diane’s classes on Anais Nin and Patti Smith and Sylvia Plath & on and on

Colette, film by Wash Westmoreland

Deborah Levy, video by Louisiana Channel

Sheila Heti, podcast conversation with Granta

(things in the real world)

Ruth Asawa Retrospective at SF Moma on until September 2, 2025

Tove exhibit at the Brooklyn Library, June 28 - September 30, 2025

Vanessa Bell’s home Charleston, Lewes, England

Lee Krasner’s house open by reservation, East Hampton, New York