Still Dirty After All These Years

One of feminism's most dynamic critics brings together psychoanalysis, critical theory and cultural studies to look at how texts construct possibilities and limits for thinking what a woman is, and where women might be going.

After years of living in France, Astrid returns to the Netherlands. She temporarily stays with her mother. Here she meets old school friends and girlfriends, soon it turns out that she is still in love with one of them. He has remained the man of her dreams. How to proceed? Continue with her life or tell the truth, which could turn his whole life but also hers, upside down. She may even lose him as a result. This problem must be solved, but how many friends should Astrid help? A party, this time without liquor, becomes the turning point in the lives of Astrid and her lover.

Usually Death is the end; but what happens when Blackmail, Love and Revenge all find their way into death? Can the body stay dead forever

Draws on interviews and conversations with women ages fifty to ninety-five to shed new light on sexuality among older women, discussing such topics as what happens to sexual desire after age fifty, how older women keep passion alive, how couples can remain physically intimate in the wake of injury or illness, and more. Original.

Maggie Smith-Bendell provides more of her vivid memories, set in the context of the long history of the gypsies.

"Naked Lunch" was banned, castigated, and recognized as a work of genius on its first publication in 1959, and fifty years later it has lost nothing of its power to astonish, shock, and inspire. A lacerating satire, an exorcism of demons, a grotesque cabinet of horrors, it is the Black Book of the Beat Generation, the forerunner of the psychedelic counterculture, and a progenitor of postmodernism and the digital age. A work of excoriating laughter, linguistic derangement, and transcendent beauty, it remains both influential and inimitable.This is the first book devoted in its entirety to William Burroughs masterpiece, bringing together an international array of scholars, artists, musicians, and academics from many fields to explore the origins, writing, reception, and complex meanings of "Naked Lunch." Tracking the legendary book from Texas and Mexico to New York, Tangier, and Paris, "Naked Lunch@50" significantly advances our understanding and appreciation of this most elusive and uncanny of texts.Contributors: Contributors: Keith AlbarnEric AndersenGail-Nina AndersonTheophile AriesJed BirminghamShaun de WaalRichard DoyleLoren GlassOliver HarrisKurt HemmerAllen HibbardRob HoltonAndrew HusseyRob JohnsonJean-Jacques LebelIan MacFadyenPolina MackayJonas MekasBarry MilesR. B. MorrisTimothy S. MurphyJurgen PloogDavis SchneidermanJennie SkerlDJ SpookyPhilip Taaffe"""

Mother Jones is an award-winning national magazine widely respected for its groundbreaking investigative reporting and coverage of sustainability and environmental issues.

This is the combined life story of Mick Foster and Tony Allen, revealing how these most unlikely of stars toured the world and entered the record books. A charming narrative told with heaps of Celtic charm, it is filled with nostalgic reminiscences about growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s and 60s, and spans the breadth of their long career, including appearing on Top of the Pops alongside Bob Geldof and being feted by Terry Wogan, and the extraordinary moment when they found themselves at the very top of the charts, beating Take That to the number-one slot.

As a business man, William McCathny loans money to people all over the world to help them fulfill their dreamsjust like his father and his grandfather before him. Lives change when he gives his name to the children of a woman in France, who has borrowed money for her little dress shop.

Marrying a handsome, wealthy lawyer and living in a Hollywood Hills mansion is a dream come true for 24-year-old Jana. From the first moment they met, Lawrence Collins swept Jana off her feet. She was willing to put her studies at a local Bible college on hold in order to wed after a six month whirlwind romance. Beautiful and vivacious, Jana knows men like Lawrence don't come along every day and she vows to be a perfect companion - the ideal wife - to this sexy, powerful man. But at what price?