Her short fiction provides an odd glimpse at a writer whose interests move beyond the human and into something more inchoate. Djuna Barnes, 1922. Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood made her reputation, and with ...

Jon Macy’s graphic biography of Djuna Barnes, the celebrated novelist of lesbian love most famous for a work that T.S. Eliot championed, “Nightwood,” calls to mind a declaration by Samuel Johnson: ...

The doctor — who is not really a doctor but more of a casual dabbler in deliveries, abortions and romantic therapies, with a sideline in dressing in women’s clothing — is consoling Nora, the least ...

The Threepenny Review is a quarterly review of the arts and society, founded in 1980 and published on a continuous quarterly basis since then. It includes articles on books, film, theater, dance, ...

“I’m not a lesbian, I just loved Thelma.” What did the modernist author Djuna Barnes mean by this? And why has this quote – in which the elderly Barnes managed to sound both closeted and confessional ...

When Djuna Barnes was in her early 20s, she walked into the offices of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and announced: "I can draw, I can write, you'd be... Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes A writer, ...

Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The writer Djuna Barnes dazzled ...