Nothing Natural by Jenny Diski
IN THE ANNALS OF EROTIC LITERATURE, a subject that consistently draws women writers of a certain ilk—smart, literate, and tough-minded—is...
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Daphne Merkin
Book Review: Lights On, Rats Out by Cree LeFavour
Memoir writers, not unlike Blanche DuBois, depend upon the kindness of strangers. Although such writers are often saddled with...
Philip Roth's Best Book
The death of Philip Roth this week led to near instantaneous debate about which of his books was his best. There was the transgressive...
Book Review: See What Can Be Done by Lorrie Moore
Collections of essays and reviews are the neglected stepchildren of book publishing, generally undertaken to please or placate an author...
Book Review: Motherhood by Sheila Heti
A provocative work probes the new norms of femininity. We live in fast and loose times, when everything from the relevance of gender to...
Kurt Eichenwald’s Memoir: A Mind Unraveled
A trauma is a trauma is a trauma. Or is it? Over the past decade, the words “trauma” and “traumatic” have been used so profligately and...
The Journey of Diana Trilling
There are people who, for whatever reason—some combination of personality and fate—never seem to catch a break, no matter what their...
A Famous Misanthrope Shows his Heartwarming Side
“IT WAS HIS QUOTABILITY,” observed the critic Clive James, “that gave Larkin the biggest cultural impact on the British reading public...
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