Kay Boyle , poet, short-story writer, novelist, journalist, and teacher, has been known to the American reading public since 1929, when her first collection of short stories was published. One of the expatriates during the 1920s and 1930s, Boyle in her e...

As a member of the expatriate literary community in Paris in the late 1920s and 1930s, Kay Boyle was well known for her novels, poetry, and short fiction, but it is as a short-story writer that she excelled. During the entire decade of the 1930s her work...

One of the larger ironies of the renewed interest in the American expatriate movement of the twenties and thirties is the relative obscurity of one of the period's most important and prolific contributors: Kay Boyle. Boyle went to France in 1923 as the w...

THE MEANING OF WIFE Anne Kingston HARPERCOLLINS, 2004 Review by Shannon Devine I love to cook, but when my partner likened this to being a good wife, I bristled. The relationship between feminism and wifedom is so strained that this misplaced compliment...

I want a wife. So -- famously -- said a writer named Judy Syfers back in 1971, in a funny but searing essay in the first issue of an upstart magazine called Ms. At the time Syfers, like many working women, was discovering...