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This week’s New Yorker has an article by James Wood about Michel Houellebecq, a French writer of some fame who[…]
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Read moreWhat does it say about me that I have enormous sympathy for Jeffrey Dahmer? I mean, seriously: I identify with him.[…]
Read moreYesterday, I wrote about what turns me on. And I could go on forever on that subject. But intellectually, I[…]
Read moreSomeone on Formspring just asked me the question, “What turns you on?” and it got me thinking. (I don’t know[…]
Read moreA.O. Scott’s review of “Shame” in The New York Times alludes to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in[…]
Read moreNewt Gingrich asked his wife for an open marriage. Sort of. Not really. Really, he asked her not to divorce[…]
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