Gertrude Stein didn't "kill the 19th century"—or create the 20th—on her own. It's hard to imagine the flowering of her work or her life without Alice B. Toklas: "wife," protector, validator of Stein's genius, and for a long time, her only audience. Still daunting and largely unread today, Stein was once even more so. But Lola Pashalinski and Linda Chapman find her work pleasurable, lyrical, even... More >>>