Sex and the Married Man
How Helen Gurley Brown inspired a generation of home-wreckers, and brought down John Edwards
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The Pain of Elizabeth Edwards
A new memoir by the politician’s wife shows that the pain of infidelity pales in comparison to the loss of a child.
Lincoln’s Emancipation
The cruelty and degeneracy the future president was subjected to in his youth forged his iron will
Hemingway's Libidinous Feast
In a restored edition of a great classic, sexual anxiety looms large.
Touched by Evil
The real spiritual drama in Flannery O’Connor’s fiction was even darker than the one she acknowledged.
Hitler's Co-Conspirators
New histories reveal that the Nazi Regime deliberately insinuated knowledge of the Final Solution, devilishly making Germans complicit in the crime and binding them, with guilt and dread, to their leaders.
The Revenge of Karl Marx
What the author of Das Kapital reveals about the current economic crisis
Theirs Truly: The Lowell-Bishop Letters
The letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are one of the great poetic correspondences of all time—and became the real essence of their relationship
Class Dismissed
A new status anxiety is infecting affluent hipdom
Demons and Dictionaries
A new book dissects Dr. Johnson’s pathologies and despair.