Sex

Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we’ve been doing it, it has been used as a mark of decline and a measure of progress. It has been at the centre of rituals and responsible for revolutions. We make money from it, hide behind it, prohibit and promote it. It relaxes us, revolts us, hurt [...]
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Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we’ve been doing it, it has been used as a mark of decline and a measure of progress. It has been at the centre of rituals and responsible for revolutions. We make money from it, hide behind it, prohibit and promote it. It relaxes us, revolts us, hurts us and helps us. But whatever we think about it, however we do it, it defines us.

Fiction

Roberto Bolaño The Redhead

Natsuo Kirino Tokyo Island

Tom McCarthy The Spa

Herta Müller Zeppelin

Jennifer Egan The Gold Cure

Chris Offutt The Blue Zoo

Adam Foulds The Rules are the Rules

Jeanette Winterson The Agony of Intimacy

Art

Jo Broughton Empty Porn Sets

Dave Eggers Four Animals Contemplating Sex

Yann Faucher Body

Memoir/Non-fiction

Mark Doty The Unwriteable

Marie Darrieussecq Rousseau and the Pussycat

Brian Chikwava The Fig Tree and the Wasp

James Lord My Queer War

Michael Symmons Roberts Silence

Victor LaValle Long Distance

Emmanuel Carrère This is For You

Rupert Thomson Park Life

Plus poetry by Carl Phillips, Anne Carson, C. K. Williams and David Kirby