“What is still called American dynamism is an endless trembling.” That is Jean Genet’s prophetic declaration, written for a speech he delivered on May 1, 1970 at Yale University, before an audience of ...

Jean Genet (1910-86) wrote in fragments, beatific subsets of his imagination where crime and beauty blur in a single artistic tableau. "Be a Sublime whore," he commands his muse, an imagined entity ...

Anthology Film Archives is screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film, based on Jean Genet’s novel, about a young sailor’s criminal and erotic escapades. By J. Hoberman In its unflinching ...

Something of Jean Genet’s original, subversive spirit has been resurrected in this highly charged revival of his 1947 classic The Maids, a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre and Reading Rep.

Stendhal on Correggio, Baudelaire on Guys, Zola on Manet, Proust on Moreau. It’s a long-standing practice, French poets and novelists taking up art criticism. In the 20th century, the roster continues ...

With their mistress away, two maids act out their darkest fantasies as they obsessively role-play her murder, until performance and reality begin to blur. This bold new translation of The Maids is a ...

Take a walk on the wild side and get tickets to go see the upcoming production of “The Maids” — the 1947 suspense thriller by ...

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Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the ...