Radical Books Collective – Beware My Smile: On Radical Desire
Radical Books Collective is organizing an evening of conversations with writers, editors and translators about their new books on sex, sexuality, lust, love, gender and desire.
Radical Books Collective is organizing an evening of conversations with writers, editors and translators about their new books on sex, sexuality, lust, love, gender and desire.
Yes, I realize that Bernard Lewis is 95, and that he’s perhaps a bit set in his ways. But, dearie, it’s never too late! Indeed, once he gets started, Mr. Lewis will find that it’s difficult to read through a contemporary Arab novel without stumbling across some treatment of non-marital sex and desire. But we’re not just looking for any treatment. For Lewis, we want truly interesting literary depictions of sex and attitudes toward sex.