The Body, Otherwise

On February 4, 2020, my breasts were surgically removed via bilateral mastectomy. This was my fourth surgery in three...

Art, Porn, and the Post-Pandemic Museum

Pornhub’s new venture Classic Nudes challenges art’s hierarchies by focusing on and recreating its most erotic moments through pornography....

Charlotte Temple should have known better. She should have listened to her teachers and her parents. She should not...

In the first weeks of a Fall 2019 class on U.S. Literature and the Law, my students and I...

So I will let it alone, and write about the house. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” I...

My father’s library took up most of his office and much of our living room–hundreds or thousands of books...

I love pop music. I love the eighteenth century. When these things collide, I am in heaven. Ascend with...

Your duvet, flung with stars, lies horizontal on the bed, the soft parts gathered in the bottom corner, like...

I’ve spent the last decade or so of my life writing a book about women and plants–specifically, eighteenth-century British...