Emily Ratajkowski (EmRata): “Over-exposing myself has always felt like the safest option”
Sylvia Plath: “A sexually charged vortex”
Joan Collins: “The issue of beauty.”
Sex in the Middle Ages: “The medieval understanding of the human body owed
more to Dr Seuss than science.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/sex-in-the-middle-ages-was-exci
ting-in-a-good-way/news-story/0e7fb84dd7140beeaf84041d6db5af11
Benjamin Myers: “A typical Northerner: dazzled by dark, sweeping landscapes
and the tragedies within.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/toxic-masculinity-and-existenti
al-impotence-in-male-tears/news-story/7662051f6db26bf0383c67eb34613d37
Fear of Dying: “The origin of all human evils, baseness and cowardice is the
fear of death.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/a-hymn-to-being-human/news-stor
y/aad375e72e178233981498886cb6dd8a
Sensual Pleasures: “Sex, at its best, is alchemical and emotional.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/permission-to-enjoy-sex/news-st
ory/b7f512dc846d612442547581398b557c
Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta: “The idea that people must live ‘their
truth’ has taken off around the world.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/when-wives-write-a-book/news-st
ory/bbb3b17c6948c980cd60c3e741f808b3
50 Shades Freed: “Indifferent to accusations of derivative work and with a
television executive’s soulless voracity for ratings, E. L. James has hit
upon a formula that is, unlike her vibrators, infallible.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/freed-by-e-l-james-barbie-dream
-house-bdsm-meets-barely-literate-schmaltz/news-story/c973076766a58d03f9ce5b
b2de2d5833
Sadness and shame: “Deep-set depression and shame are two of Krien’s primary
literary drivers, which may be why the book was a bestseller in Germany.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/sadness-and-shame-the-postwoke-
genres-of-the-moment/news-story/309abe6599fccc543c55ceff31c34bf0
Massimo Recalcati: “Love is, perhaps, the most anarchic and potent of all
human feelings, overriding convention, expectation, and strategy.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/player-massimo-recalcati-puts-t
he-peck-in-peccadillos/news-story/fc6cbdeed454febbae4995b6fa22bb56