Jennifer Natalya Fink’s Disabilities
Writing about the disabled is a chance for celebration, not a story of victimhood or a political program.
Tablet
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Let’s Shut Up About Sex
On how less is sometimes more.
Bookforum
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The Death of Eros?
Are today’s legal definitions of rape helping or hurting women?
Elle Magazine
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In Defense of Drunks
On the value of social drinking
Slate
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The New Erotic Fundamentalism
Essay on American sexual morés.
Truthdig
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Lust Never Sleeps
An examination of the sexual memoir of an English academic
Bookforum
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What’s Wrong with the American Essay
On the domestication of a genre that was born to be wild
Truthdig
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No Exit
Essay on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
New York Times
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Latex Conquers All
A new look at the updated bible of women’s health, Our Bodies, Ourselves.
The Atlantic
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Fidelity with a Wandering Eye
On why the conventional wisdom on men and women is false
The Atlantic
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Shakespeare in Love, or in Context
Essay on Shakespeare and his Scholars.
Atlantic Monthly
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Big Wolfe on Campus
Review of the Irritating Genius of Tom Wolfe
New York Magazine
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The Higher Yearning: Bringing Eros Back to Academe
A student’s argument about the value of chemistry in the classroom.
Harper’s
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Books Make You a Boring Person
Essay on book snobbery
New York Times
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Our Essays, Ourselves: In Defense of the Big Idea
Harper’s Magazine
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Love in the Time of Hedonism
Is France’s most famous novelist and swinger a cynic, as everyone says?
Harper’s Magazine
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Time, Gass, and the Essay
On William Gass, the Overrated
Michigan Quarterly Review
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The Unbearable Slightness: Why Do We Like Milan Kundera, Again?
Reassessing a Literary Rockstar
Harper’s Magazine
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Last the Night: The Abiding Genius of Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Love Letter to a Spurned Love Poet
Harper’s
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In Praise of Student-Teacher Attraction
Review of Blue Angel by Francine Prose
The London Review of Books
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Dung, Diet, and Art
On Thinking You’re a Genius: Essay on William Wordsworth
The American Scholar
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The Woman Who Dreamed Too Much
Essay on the life and letters of the extraordinary Margaret Fuller
Los Angeles Times
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Paris is Boring: Claiming France for the New Homebodies
New Yorker columnist, Adam Gopnik, publishes a book on the French Capital and gets it all wrong.
Harper’s
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Mr. Goodbar Redux
Essay on Modern Dating and its Discontents
The Atlantic Monthly
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The Vindications: The Moral Opportunism of Feminist Biography
Harper’s
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Love, Actually
On Governor Sanford’s Argentinian Affair
The New Republic
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Tyrannosaurus Ralph
Essay on Ralph Waldo Emerson: Rehabilitating a Forgotten Giant
Los Angeles Times
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