The title of this book, Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century’s End (1997), is enough to make anybody want to read it. However, it is more academic than titillating. Yet, once I began reading, I could not stop. Katie Roiphe begins with the story of her sister Emily, the black sheep... Continue Reading →
The Mess of Brave New World
One of my students this summer suggested that I read Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley. I obliged him. And then I realized that it is book #58 on the BBC book list, so I killed two birds with one stone: pleasing people and checking a book off of my list. I can’t decide... Continue Reading →