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Obituary | Not just a pretty face Gloria Steinem changed the world for American women

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  Obituary | Not just a pretty face Gloria Steinem changed the world for American women The journalist and campaigner for liberation died on September 2nd, aged 92 Save Share Photograph: Getty Images Sep 17th 2026 | 5 min read Listen to this story AI Narrated H er blue satin costume was a pain. It was so tight that the zip snagged her skin when she was fastened up, and cut so high on the leg that her hip-bones showed. Her dresser had pushed a whole plastic dry-cleaning bag down her front, explaining as she did so that “Everybody stuffs.” Stuffed in their tips, she meant, while Gloria Steinem, holding a drinks tray aloft on the palm of her left hand, would bend her knees into the Bunny Dip and say, pertly, “Sir, you are not allowed to touch the Bunnies.” Working undercover at the Playboy Club on East 59th Street made a great story for Show magazine in the summer of 1963. It also made her feet so swollen and sore, on three-inch heels, that she could hardly walk. The ad she had repl...
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Những Thời Ăn Thịt Người

  In Cannibalistic Times Tatyana Tolstaya , translated by Jamey Gambrell April 11, 1991 issue Reviewed: The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest Oxford University Press, 570 pp., $24.95 Last year Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror was translated into Russian and published in the USSR in the journal Neva . (Unfortunately, only the first edition was published. I hope that the second, revised and enlarged edition will be published as well, if it is not suppressed by the censorship so recently revived in the Soviet Union.) The fate of this book in the USSR is truly remarkable. Many of those who opened Neva in 1989–1990 exclaimed: “But I know all this stuff already!” How did they know it? From Conquest himself. The first edition appeared twenty years ago in English, was translated into Russian, and infiltrated what was then a closed country. It quickly became an underground best seller, and there’s not a thinking person who isn’t acquainted with the book in one form or anot...
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Graham Greene, The Art of Fiction No. 3

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  Graham Greene , The Art of Fiction No. 3 Interviewed by Simon Raven & Martin Shuttleworth Issue 3, Autumn 1953 The eighteenth century succeeds to the twentieth on the ground floors at the bottom of St. James’s Street. The gloss and the cellophane of oyster bars and travel agencies are wrapped incongruously round the legs of the dignified houses. Graham Greene lives here at the commercial end of this thoroughfare in a flat on the first floor of a narrow house sandwiched between the clubs of the aristocracy and St. James’s Palace. Above him, General Auchinleck, the soldier who was beaten by Rommel; below him, the smartest oyster bar in Europe; opposite, the second smartest. Readers of Cakes and Ale will remember that it was near here that Maugham met Hugh Walpole, but it is not the sort of area in which one expects to find a novelist, even a successful novelist. It’s an area black with smartness; the Rolls-Royces and the bowler hats of the men are black, the court shoes and t...
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