History, Memory, Imagination

  Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind but out of what began? —Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”   In her introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s long-withheld novel Inseparable,[1] Margaret Atwood calls this Beauvoir’s “freshest and most immediate work,” coming “directly from her own experience.” Although it was composed in 1954, five years […]