Essays

from the New York Times:

• On PLAYBOY by Constance Debré

• On BARBARA THE SLUT by Lauren Holmes

• On THE FEVER by Megan Abbott

• On ORKNEY by Amy Sackville

from The Los Angeles Review of Books/Salon:

• Exile in Girlville: Sex and Sheila Heti

from Salon:

• Truth in Fiction

from Lithub:

• The Best Literary Sex Scenes

from Largehearted Boy:

• On the songs in WRECK AND ORDER

from The New Republic:

• On Mary Gaitskill’s THE MARE

• An Inventory of Missing: On Frederic Tuten

from n+1:

• On Jeanette Winterson

• On Edouard Levé

• The Vertical Altar: On Mary Gaitskill, Catherine Millet, and Toni Bentley

from Bookforum:

• The Silent Woman: On Rachel Cusk

from DISSENT:

• Bad Feminists: On GIRLS, Roxane Gay, and the Rise of the Female Anti-Hero

from Tin House:

• On the Correspondence of Rainer Maria Rilke and André Gide

from Tricycle: The Buddhist Review:

• Buddhism’s Higher Power

• Not Our Bodies, Not Ourselves

• Personal Heaven, Personal Hell

from the Paris Review Daily:

• On the Merits of Disturbing Literature

• A Rosier Crucifixion: The Erotic World of Henry Miller

from The Gay and Lesbian Review:

• Eileen Myles’ Song of the Self

from The Sun:

• • By Song, Not Album