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Alfred Jarry's The Supermale is one those books so loaded with the weight of expectation that it cannot but fail to disappoint. Given the place it holds on so many cycling literature lists what is most disappointing about it is that it has so little...

Deviant sex, almost by definition, is bound to gross out more people than normal sex—but disgust doesn’t justify hatred. The following is an excerpt from PERV: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering, published October 8, 2013 by...

The picaresque is a romantic sub-genre of Adventure in the sense that its protagonist is an individual seeking a passionate life not afforded by an enlightened, modern, rationalized social order. Free experimentation instead of following rules. The invisible...

In this fourth in the series, we look at how France has politically and intellectually nurtured and fostered the forces of radical Islam. At first glance this may seem incongruous. It was France after all which pioneered a radical form of secularism...

JOHN DURHAM PETERS is a rare animal in the field of communications studies: a wide-ranging intellectual with a graceful prose style, a talent for synthesis, and a way with aphorisms. Perhaps best known for Speaking into the Air, his 1999 history of the...