Lara Feigel's new book is a combination memoir and celebration of the writer Doris Lessing — whose famous distaste for convention led her to... Some books — not many, but a few — are vastly affected ...

Doris Lessing, the novelist who for six decades has been a fierce and wide-ranging chronicler of the rifts between men and women, black and white, and the self and society, has won the 2007 Nobel ...

Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments. By Helen T.

Some books — not many, but a few — are vastly affected by the moment in which you read them. Not moment in history, or in your life. I mean the exact circumstance in which you sit down and crack the ...