“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 ...

SAINT GENET by Jean-Paul Sartre 625 pages. Braziller. $8.50. OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS by Jean Genet. 318 pages. Grove. $6.50. “Jean Genet is an artist,” proclaimed the President of the French Republic ...

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.

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 ...