Artistic tastemaker extraordinaire or charlatan merely posing as a genius writer? For a biographer-detective, there is no more thrilling case ...

To most people, the salient qualities of Gertrude Stein are unreadability combined with monumental self-belief. This is the ...

Alice Toklas, only three years younger than Stein and also America-born, moved to Paris at the age of 29, some time after the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake in 1906 destroyed her family’s ...

Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague,' about the making of Jean-Luc Godard 'Breathless,' is more diverting French New Wave tribute than cinema history.

The book is full of dynamic characters – including Stein’s friend Pablo Picasso – and much of the story focuses on Stein’s lover and longtime companion, Alice B Toklas. They called each ...

The story of her journey from her birth in 1874 to a cultured and wealthy middle-class émigré Jewish family in Pennsylvania to the Rue de Fleurus and the salons of turn-of-the-century Paris, and of ...

Valerie Mahaffey's daughter Alice Ziolkoski is an actress in her own right. Ziolkoski, who has acted in movies like " The Witch Files ," posted a sweet tribute to the actress, who passed away at the ...