 A bi-weekly column from a promiscuous reader.
By Jessa Crispin |
Marrying Type The American wedding is a superficial pageant, but so are the books that attempt to expose it.
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Only the Lonely Anti-loneliness advice may be treacly, but it beats the circle of hell that is feeling all alone in the world.
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Safety First What we can learn from 1940s sex-ed classes.
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The Bio Sphere We're in a period of biography overkill, with the James family its latest victims.
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Pillow Talk Who ever thought sex memoirs could be so boring?
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War Stories For those who've lived in war zones — from Afghanistan to Ireland — memoir can be a powerful exorcism.
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Women's Studies There are how-to guides, and then there are how-to guides for women. Why the distinction?
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Fully Booked The brain did not evolve to develop a written language. But learning to read will not change you; it's what and how you read that will.
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Man Overboard In blaming TV, booze, and pornography, books like the The Broken American Male miss the mark.
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Veg Out It's fine that vegans don't want to eat meat. But do their cookbook recipes have to taste so bad?
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The Forest and the Trees Americans are ambivalent about nature, but that doesn't meant all nature writing has to be depressing.
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The Depression Book Blues Against Happiness, Eric Wilson's defense of melancholia, is just...sad.
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How to Shop Women need to be told what to wear. At least that's what the glut of fashion guides suggests.
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The Second Sex, the Second Time The Second Sex? You know, that thing you were supposed to read in your Women’s Studies class? Considering de Beauvoir in a self-help age.
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Atheism Is the New Black Have books on atheism already jumped the shark? A new response by theologian John F. Haught suggests both sides have it all wrong.
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