Jane Austen
HBO's Creepy and Revealing Take on Hitchcock
Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy! Why is IKEA airbrushing women out of the Arab spring? The Christian Science Monitor | 2 min (503 words) READ MORE >>
In the Margins
The Prose and the Passion
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster By Wendy Moffat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 404 pp., $32.50) Concerning E.M. Forster By Frank Kermode (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 180 pp., $24) READ MORE >>
The Prose and the Passion
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster By Wendy Moffat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 404 pp., $32.50) Concerning E.M. Forster By Frank Kermode (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 180 pp., $24) READ MORE >>
Look At Me!
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis (Knopf, 384 pp., $26.95) READ MORE >>
Look At Me!
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis (Knopf, 384 pp., $26.95) READ MORE >>
Hooking Up In The Forest Of Arden
Ugh. There is a LOT to say about David Gelernter’s article “Instant Sex: And the sad demise of romantic love” in this week’s Weekly Standard. But most of it is really just too obvious. Gelernter’s tired sad old point is that premarital sex, because it limits the “huge power of blocked passion,” limits one’s ability to fall in love. (Of course, this only applies to women, who, we are told, must be virgins to fall in love. READ MORE >>
