On Love and Loss
Are today’s legal definitions of rape helping or hurting women?
Elle Magazine
link
Romantic Outlaws
About the Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
New York Times
link
Are You Ready for a Change?
The Baby Kaboom
O the Oprah Magazine
pdf
Lust Never Sleeps
An examination of the sexual memoir of an English academic
Bookforum
link
Are Parents Better Lovers?
What is the relationship between parenting and romancing?
New York Times
link
The New Erotic Fundamentalism
Essay on American sexual morés.
Truthdig
link
Let’s Shut Up About Sex
On how less is sometimes more.
Bookforum
link
Where are Love’s Heroes Today?
Essay-review on erotic life in classical Greece.
Chronicle of Higher Education
link
Un Homme in Full
On French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his biographer Yasmina Reza
The Atlantic
link
Practice, Practice, Practice.
Review of Masters and Johnson biography.
New York Times
link
Good Vibrations
Attack on The Intimate History of the Orgasm
The Nation
link
Zip it: Erica Jong’s Stunning Self-Absorption
Essay on the author of Fear of Flying.
The Atlantic
link
Of Sex and Marriage: Stop it you’re Killing my Libido
On the price of sex: a review of Esther Perel’s Mating in Captivity.
The Atlantic
link
No Exit
Essay on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
New York Times
link
Love in a Hot Climate
On dodging knives and brides across the Seychelles Islands
Condé Nast Traveler
link
Latex Conquers All
A new look at the updated bible of women’s health, Our Bodies, Ourselves.
The Atlantic
link
No Exit
Essay on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
New York Times
link
Love Hurts
On the consuming passion of Heloise and Abelard
New York Times
link
The Higher Yearning: Bringing Eros Back to Academe
A student’s argument about the value of chemistry in the classroom.
Harper’s
pdf
Fidelity with a Wandering Eye
On why the conventional wisdom on men and women is false
The Atlantic
link
Come Together
Review of September 11 Porn
The Nation
link
Love in the Time of Hedonism
Is France’s most famous novelist and swinger a cynic, as everyone says?
Harper’s Magazine
pdf
Last the Night: The Abiding Genius of Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Love Letter to a Spurned Love Poet
Harper’s
pdf
In Praise of Student-Teacher Attraction
Review of Blue Angel by Francine Prose
The London Review of Books
link
The Woman Who Dreamed Too Much
Essay on the life and letters of the extraordinary Margaret Fuller
Los Angeles Times Book Review
link
Mr. Goodbar Redux
Essay on Modern Dating and its Discontents
The Atlantic Monthly
link
The Vindications: The Moral Opportunism of Feminist Biography
Harper’s
pdf
Love, Actually
On Governor Sanford’s Argentinian Affair
The New Republic
link
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