July 26, 2017
NSFW: On “Hysterical Literature,” Leaves of Grass, and the Sexy Reading Movement
Somewhere in the foggy realm between performance art and porno, on a YouTube channel where a poem drives up page views, a woman reads aloud from a paperback book. She […]
June 8, 2017
Women Who Like to Watch
Pop quiz: Do eggs look like breasts or eyes to you? It’s crucial to identify whether they resemble how we are seen or how we see. I got three double-yolked […]
February 11, 2016
Empathy & Female Anger: On Yael Hedaya’s “Housebroken” (Part 3)
I didn’t want to write about “Matti,” the last story in Yael Hedaya’s collection Housebroken. Perhaps because it’s a story I’m tired of hearing: women forgiving men for the most […]
January 5, 2012
And Shakespeare Begat Shakespeare
The only kind of sexual intercourse we “know” Shakespeare had was heterosexual—with the wife who bore his twins, Judith and Hamnet. In the absence of genetic samples, though, we […]