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Thinks I think
The economy of sex
This week’s New Yorker has an article by James Wood about Michel Houellebecq, a French writer of some fame who[…]
Read moreHotness abounds
A feature of living in a big city is the constant barrage of attractive people. Men, women, people of indeterminate[…]
Read moreBoundaries
Where we draw our lines is so highly variable, and so vitally communicative about who, and how, we are. Lines[…]
Read moreSympathy for the devil
What does it say about me that I have enormous sympathy for Jeffrey Dahmer? I mean, seriously: I identify with him.[…]
Read moreWhat doesn’t turn me on
Yesterday, I wrote about what turns me on. And I could go on forever on that subject. But intellectually, I[…]
Read moreWhat turns me on
Someone on Formspring just asked me the question, “What turns you on?” and it got me thinking. (I don’t know[…]
Read moreShame, or, Sonnet 129
A.O. Scott’s review of “Shame” in The New York Times alludes to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in[…]
Read moreMonogamy and its discontents
Newt Gingrich asked his wife for an open marriage. Sort of. Not really. Really, he asked her not to divorce[…]
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