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If we want to disseminate the idea that male virginity is acceptable, we have to move away from our historical obsession that defines virginity as a strictly feminine phenomenon. We must start defining virginity in a gender neutral sense. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the foremost authority on the English...
It might be better if this woeful memoir had been a novel; its tone of hysterical self-obsession might pass as fiction. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random...
President Clinton is notorious for his obsession with the legacy that he will leave. Perhaps a part of that legacy will be the following memo written to the national-finance chair of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe. When presented with a busy schedule of for-sale breakfasts, lunches and...
Troy's other obsession involves death: Even from the opening scene he tries to deny its inevitability. Ultimately, death pervades his whole life, first through his mistress's death and eventually his own.
His obsession, presumably born in his childhood memories of a prostrate China and his adult humiliation during the Cultural Revolution, was to undo the crimes and stupidities of the Cultural Revolution, break the communist ideological straitjacket and unleash, as he put it, the creative energy of China. His opposition to...