Atlantic Unbound Archive

Cristina Nehring

Recent articles by Cristina Nehring

June 2008

Un Homme in Full

A blinkered and besotted account of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign succumbs to the erotic entanglements of biography.

December 2006

Of Sex and Marriage

Stop it, you’re killing my libido.

September 2006

Zip It

Erica Jong’s stunning self-absorption.

October 2005

Latex Conquers All

A revised compendium of the curses and clichés that beset modern feminism.

July/August 2005

Fidelity With a Wandering Eye

Love is noble, love is hard, and women cheat just as readily as men.

April 2005

Was It Something I Said?

Five books by extremely engaging misogynists.

December 2004

Shakespeare in Love, or in Context

If society creates art, as Stephen Greenblatt believes, then why was Shakespeare's achievement so singular?

April 2004

Domesticated Goddess

"Dying is an art," said Sylvia Plath. But so is living, and she excelled at both—not that her biographers, with one wise and big-hearted exception, have noticed.

January 2002

Mr. Goodbar Redux

Illusions. Affectation. Lies. This is the insidious and incapacitating legacy of modern dating books.