This is an adapted excerpt from Tracy Clark-Flory’s Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire, a…
In 1997 Joe Francis was working as a production assistant in reality television when he realized that most of the…
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“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual,” writer Ariel Levy says at the…
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Sorry in advance for what I'm about to do to you lovely people, but I can't be alone in these feelings anymore.…
Over the weekend, Ariel Levy, who wrote a beautiful profile of DOMA star Edith Windsor for the New Yorker,…
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Despite the fact that the Steubenville rape trial is over and the boys involved have been sentenced and are…
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The Beauty Myth author and feminist Naomi Wolf's Vagina dropped this year (sorry—just to be clear, it's her new book …
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Of all the upsetting things people say about Silvio Berlusconi, perhaps the most disturbing is that he is "natural."
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What a thrill it is, every once in a while, to read a rip-roaring take-down! Today's specimen is Reed Krakoff, the…
Anne Hays noticed that the two most recent issues of the New Yorker featured almost exclusively essays and reporting…
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The 2008 Republican candidate discussing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an email message to the New Yorker's Ariel…
Thoughtful articles by Ariel Levy and Judith Butler explore the larger issues of sex and gender behind Caster Semenya
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Ariel Levy recommends Andrea Dworkin's Heartbreak and Janet Malcolm's Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. We'd like to…
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In this week's New Yorker, Ariel Levy complains that feminism has turned into "identity politics," focusing on…
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Feminists love bickering about feminism. And as more women join the conversation, it gets nastier…and better! But…
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Ariel Levy's profile of Alber Elbaz, the Israeli who's helmed Lanvin since 2001, succeeds in describing the…