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18 Favorites of 2018
I’ve once again chosen my most popular posts of 2018, based on visits, comments, Tweets and Facebook likes.
Don’t Let Sex Distract You from the Revolution
The discussions about gender were more congenial to me than the groups that confronted the problems heterosexual relations posed for women committed to some form of the revolution.
Mary Oliver Is Dead
Her gift seems simple and yet it is neither simple nor common but the “confiding intimacy” of her great poems.
Inhabited by Poetry
Beginnings of anything are always inspiring, more than middle or ends, which tend to be tedious.
The Next Step
How to live on nothing is a question the publishers have not condescended to consider.
The Tooth
Since the tooth has been with me for a long time and has served me faithfully, I decided to write its story.
Celebrities
These days if a writer is smitten with the idea of writing a new book—a new analysis—of any supposedly well-known person, the obstacles to her research will be enormous.
A Nation Afraid
I’ve been wondering why we in the blessed U.S. seem so frightened of just about everything.
Doris Duke: Changing Faces
We are all too complicated and contradictory to be explained.