Selected Essays and Journalism
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From THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
"Desperately Seeking Susan" (on Susan Sontag) 17 March 2005
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/cast01_.html
"Love-of-One's-Life-Department" (on Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien) 21 October 2004
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n20/cast01_.html
"Seductress Extraordinaire" (on Mercedes de Acosta and Greta Garbo) 24 June 2004
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n12/cast01_.html
"My Heroin Christmas" (on Art Pepper) 5 December 2003 (not available online)
"Courage, Mon Amie" (on the First World War) 4 April 2002
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n07/cast01_.html
"Pipe Down Back There!" (on Willa Cather) 14 December 2000
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n06/cast01_.html
"Yes You Sweetheart" (on Colette) 16 March 2000
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n06/cast01_.html
"Always the Bridesmaid" (on Sappho) 20th Anniversary Issue 30 September 1999
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/cast01_.html
"Boss Ladies, Watch Out" (on Lillian Hellman) 15 April 1999
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/cast01_.html
"If Everybody Had a Wadley" (on "Joe" Carstairs) 5 March 1998
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n05/cast01_.html
From THE ATLANTIC:
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Cervantes: “High Plains Drifter,” The Atlantic, January/February 2004.
Cole Porter: “Night and Day,” The New Republic, December 21, 1998.
Joe Carstairs: “If Everybody Had a Wadley,” London Review of Books, 5 March 1998.
Casanova: “Boogie Nights.” The New Republic, 3 November 1997.
19th-Century Spiri"tualism: “Flournoy’s Complaint.” London Review of Books, 23 May 1996.
Charlotte Brontë: “Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte.” The New Republic, 22 January 1996.
Jane Austen: “Sister-Sister.” London Review of Books, 2 August 1995. Rpt. with
accompanying article in Lingua Franca, September/October 1995; and in Jane Hindle, ed., London Review of Books: An Anthology, 138-48. London and New York: Verso, 1996.
History of Sexuality: “Sex Please--We’re British.” The New Republic, 5 June 1995.
Eliza Fenwick and 18th-Century Women’s Writing: “Sublimely Bad.” London Review of
Books, 23 February 1995.
Sylvia Townsend Warner: “The Will to Whimsy.” Times Literary Supplement, 3 June 1994.
Gertrude Stein: “Very Fine is My Valentine.” Times Literary Supplement, 18 February 1994.
Lesbian Writing: “Love Between Women.” Times Literary Supplement, 27 August 1993.
The Brontës: “Another Brontë Country.” Times Literary Supplement, 10 January 1992.
Janet Flanner: “An Americaine in Paris.” The New Republic, 26 March, 1990.
18th-Century Bluestockings: “Learned Ladies.” Times Literary Supplement, Dec. 14-20, 1990.
18th-Century Women’s Poetry: “Unruly and Unresigned.” Times Literary Supplement, Nov.
10-16, 1989.
Lesbian Writing: “Pursuing the Amazonian Dream.” Times Literary Supplement, June 2-8,
1989.
On Colette:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n06/cast01_.html