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Erotic literature

Bound and Galleyed

by Jamie Fewery,

From “Whips and Chains,” which appeared in Issue 11 of The Fence. Back in February 2012, when I was a newly minted marketing executive at Random House U.K., I was…

The Mothership

by Mark McGurl,

From Everything and Less, which will be published next month by Verso. A version of this essay appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of American Literary History. There is a…

Onan the librarian

by Harper’s Staff,

How to write an erotic love letter

by V.K. McCarty,

Naughty old men

by James Wolcott,

Two veteran novelists who can still bounce the bedsprings

The obscenity muddle

by Paul Bender,

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