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Maude Hutchins is a novelist known and criticized for her works which covered taboo subjects such as sex. One of such works is her 'Victorine', a sexual novel about a 12-year old girl. Hutchins' writing style is examined further.

The author describes her trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her elderly mother to see artworks by women on exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. The narrative muses on feminine identity, artistic creativity, parent versus self, and appreciation despite differences.

ONE OF THE MORE disturbing newsreels of the early twentieth century--now, like the Zapruder film, easily found on the Web-shows Emily Davison, a militant English suffragist maddened by the injustices [...]

The late Mario Praz--dandy, scholar, eccentric chronicler of interior-decorating styles through the ages--once observed that human beings could be divided into those who cared about such things and those who […]

How--without feeling as addled as its hero--to try to say something new about Don Quixote? About the work once singled out by the Nobel Institute as the greatest novel of [...]

THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER Stories By Hilary Mantel 242 pp. A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt & Company. $27. Reading through Hilary Mantel's vastly entertaining new collection of stories, I [...]

The article discusses the author's collection of anonymous photographs. The author discusses philosopher Roland Barthes's concept of punctum and compares it to the way she is drawn into photographs. She describes children in photographs and suggests that many of them appear obnoxious. The author presents descriptions of several photographs from her collection including "Little Iodine" depicting a teenage girl, "Plus Fours" depicting a boy on a boardwalk, and "Autoeroticism" depicting a group of teenage boys. Also discussed are albums housing part of her collection.

Byline: Terry Castle Shall I be ashamed to kill mother? -Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers Time: last year. Place: an undergraduate classroom, in the airy, well-wired precincts of Silicon Valley University. [...]

Terry Castle writes, 'No contemporary North American reader of Don Quixote can fail to be struck by its surprisingly sympathetic evocation of the world of Islam,' and then puts in […]

Caxton and Gutenberg are no doubt levitating in their crypts. With desktop publishing, personal Web Doges, and hundreds of free digital fonts available on the Internet, writers of all sorts [...]

Olivia, by Dorothy Strachey (1949). A febrile little tale of student-teacher sapphism at a posh French boarding school in the 1880s. When Mademoiselle Julie, the glamorous headmistress of Les Avons, [...]

The article discusses the photographer Vivian Maier whose job as a nanny allowed her to pursue photography, and the author's categorization of her as a Non-Woman, or a woman who eschews femininity for androgyny. Topics include how art collector John Maloof purchased her works at an auction and began selling and printing them, the ensuing legal battle between Maloof and Maier's purported closest living relative, and other Non-Women such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, and Angela Merkel.

Collected Poems and Selected Prose, by Charlotte Mew (1981). The melancholic Mew (1869-1928) is now mostly forgotten (she killed herself out of loneliness at fifty-eight--appallingly--by ingesting creosote). Female fans have [...]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence (1926). I have yet to meet a female contemporary who has read this book--perhaps because Lawrence writes mainly about bone-jarring camel rides, [...]

Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edge, by John Turner and Deborah Klochko (2004). The title scrawled by the outsider artist Howard Finster (1916-2001) on one of his loopy, [...]

Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion, by William Hazlitt (1823). The hilariously squalid (and strangely affecting) record of the great nineteenth-century critic's erotic obsession with his landlady's daughter. Mother and […]

The article discusses the legalization of gay marriage in the U.S. and the revamping of the traditional institution of marriage. The author notes that while legalizing gay marriage is cause for celebration, she remembers her own disconnection during her lesbian wedding. It also mentions the author's struggle with her sexuality as a high school student in San Diego, California in 1967 and her current discovery of personal documents written by her mother Mavis.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Blind Into Baghdad," by James Fallow in the January/February 2004 issue, "Spies, Lies, and Weapons," by Kenneth M. Pollack in the January/February 2004 issue, and "The Crucible of Hollywood's Guilt," by Mark Steyn in the December 2003 issue.

Focuses on the life story of Art Pepper, one of the supreme alto saxophone players in the U.S. Career background; Charges filed against Pepper during the 1950s for possession of illegal drugs; Information on the autobiographical book "Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper"; Account from Pepper on how he courted his third wife, Laurie; Problems experienced by Pepper during his childhood.

Presents an article about war. Cause of women's fixation on war; Speculations on the disappearance of a relative; Details of the manner of living during wartime.

The author presents her views on various topics. The author relates some of the things she learned from the Levine Breaking News website, which includes the term "odontophobia," which means the fear of teeth. She explains why her house is named Princess Diane, or The Princess for short. She talks about the works of Flemish painter James Ensor.

Presents a passage from Terry Castle's book `Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall,' in which she examines what in an interview with the magazine `Lesbian News' she calls the `creative coupling' between the two homosexual literary icons.

Presents the poem "What Refried Blue Jeans Said," by Terry Castle. First Line: ooh babe; Last Line: you were like bright chrome.

Presents the poem "Best Foods Apocalypse," by Terry Castle. First Line: My Love comes clad; Last Line: Mayonnaise!

Presents the poem "Dog Days," by Terry Castle. First Line: Green suede woman, spit in your muzzle; Last Line: let's bark up the towpath of the best canal.

Presents the poem "Song," by Terry Castle. First Line: Saxophone alley; Last Line: play her, sweet horns, down to the sea.

Presents the poem "Dobro Visions," by Terry Castle. First Line: Under the Willow; Last Line: in any old swamp for you.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Information on Dyce Murphy, an Australian adventurer and cross-dresser; Comments on John Mullan's review of two books on Jacobitism; Influence of Vineta Colby's biography of Vernon Lee on reviving interest in women's works.