Alexandra Schwartz on Joan Acocella’s “The Frog and the Crocodile”
- Posted on October 12, 2025
- By The New Yorker
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Alexandra Schwartz on Joan Acocella’s “The Frog and the Crocodile”

Acocella doesn’t plead for her subject, or condemn her. She reads Simone de Beauvoir’s work and life in light of each other, and the results illuminate our understanding of both.