Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.
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Book Review: “Building 46” — Much More than a Chinese Ghost Story
Author and journalist Massoud Hayoun’s novel Building 46 probes behind the air-brushed image of China’s capital city to offer a fascinating (and incisive) look into the everyday lives of Beijing dwellers.
Book Review: “The Sexual Night” — Origins Unknown
French writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.
Film Review: Lars Von Trier’s Nifty “Nymphomaniac: Volume 1”
What makes Lars von Trier one of cinema’s most fascinating directors? It is his willingness to pull out the stops in a riotous search to understand his own mind and ask questions about human nature. His films are a quest to find himself.
Don Juan — Philosopher of Love
A conversation with Douglas Carlton Abrams, author of the erotically-charged novel “The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love.” By Bill Marx Readers looking for a retread of Errol Flynn’s antics as the infamous lover will be disappointed — though not grievously so, […]