Sex Writing
Volume 34, Number 6
September-October 2013
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Cris Mazza’s Introduction to Focus: “Literary Nakedness”
Gina Frangello’s “State of the (Literary/Sexual) Union”
Roxane Gay reviews Debra Di Blasi, Illustrations by Mug Takei, Dirty : Dirty
Matthew Roberson reviews Rob Roberge’s The Cost of Living
Cristopher Grimes reviews Rikki Ducornet’s Netsuke
Elisabeth Sheffield reviews Tamara Faith Berger’s Maidenhead
Kolby Harvey reviews Clifford Browder and Elizabeth Ellen in The Pleasuring of Men and Fast Machine
Related Issues
Focus: Modern Lives — July / August 2005
Reviews of books on Theodore Dreiser, Ezra Pound, Peggy Guggenheim, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Focus: Cosmopolitanism — March / April 2007
The cosmopolitan both presupposes and displaces its supranational framework in order to reframe it.
Focus: Writers People Love to Hate — May / June 2017
Aesthetic disagreements have a long and spectacular history of bile and hatred. But literary study has become a war of political ideology rather than a dialogue concerning aesthetics.
LATEST ISSUE
Focus: Digital Art — Winter 2023
Aesthetic experience in the digital age
RECENT ISSUES
Focus: Rethinking Classics — Fall 2023
Vital and changing studies of the ancient world, opening up the past with new questions.
Focus: Rejections — Summer 2023
Rejection is the universe’s way of affirming one’s existence, an unavoidable—but sometimes tonic—part of life.
ARCHIVES
Archives: Charles Johnson reviews Richard Wright
Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
