Cristina Nehring
Recent articles by Cristina Nehring
Un Homme in Full
A blinkered and besotted account of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign succumbs to the erotic entanglements of biography.
Of Sex and Marriage
Stop it, you’re killing my libido.
Zip It
Erica Jong’s stunning self-absorption.
Latex Conquers All
A revised compendium of the curses and clichés that beset modern feminism.
Fidelity With a Wandering Eye
Love is noble, love is hard, and women cheat just as readily as men.
Was It Something I Said?
Five books by extremely engaging misogynists.
Shakespeare in Love, or in Context
If society creates art, as Stephen Greenblatt believes, then why was Shakespeare's achievement so singular?
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.
Mr. Goodbar Redux
Illusions. Affectation. Lies. This is the insidious and incapacitating legacy of modern dating books.