Click here to read: Who Is Philip Roth’s Portnoy Satirizing? by Bernard Avishai from The Daily Beast on August 28, 2012.
Philip Roth’s Alex Portnoy is the satirist par excellence. He’s awfully clever, making us laugh out loud. But who is Portnoy mocking exactly? The bourgeois family? Psychoanalysis? Himself? Bernard Avishai, author of Promiscuous: ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness, talks to Roth himself to come up with the real object of Portnoy’s critique of America.
Click here to read a book review by Roxanne Myslewski of Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase from Portland Monthly Mag on August 23, 2012.
FROM HEATHERS TO MEAN GIRLS TO GOSSIP GIRL, the scary teenage girl is a well-worn pop culture character—flippant, stubborn, and obnoxious. But in Oregon author Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase, that familiar archetype becomes a razor-edged scalpel for dissecting what it means to be categorized, typed, and diagnosed.
Click Here to Read: Review of Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis by Jon Mills, Reviewed by Jeremy Ridinour on the American Psychological Association Division 39 Website.
Click here to read “The Einsteins of Sex” by Benjamin Ivry from the Jewish Daily Forward on August 21, 2012.
More than just spiritual forefathers of the sex therapist and ex-Haganah sniper Ruth Westheimer, a trio of German Jewish sexologists preceded Sigmund Freud in innovations. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935); Iwan Bloch (1872–1922); and Albert Moll (1862–1939) are no longer household names, but they star in Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930.
