For over half a century, Doris Lessing has turned her prolific pen to just about every prose form — fiction, autobiography, essays, drama. Yet all of her writing stems from the impulse to lay bare the ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Doris Lessing’s rebellion against middle-class values began in her early youth. Born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in ...
Why is it that when a man leaves his wife and she retains custody of the kids we say, simply, "he is divorced?" Yet when a woman, say Doris Lessing, leaves her husband and he retains custody of the ...
Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winning author and feminist icon, died Sunday. She was 94. Her enduring contribution to literature came with the 1962 publication of “The Golden Notebook,” a sprawling and ...
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