Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winning author and feminist icon, died Sunday. She was 94. Her enduring contribution to literature came with the 1962 publication of “The Golden Notebook,” a sprawling and ...

For over half a century, Doris Lessing has turned her prolific pen to just about every prose form — fiction, autobiography, essays, drama. Yet all of her writing stems from the impulse to lay bare the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Doris Lessing’s rebellion against middle-class values began in her early youth. Born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in ...