A Tabloid Reader Responds to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Announcement That He’s Appealing the Decision Making Gay Marriage Legal in New York

Though Mike must do what he thinks right,
A lot of us think it’s a pity,
Since we were hoping SpongeBob might
Decide to marry in the city.

Calvin Trillin

Post-Roe Postcard

Is Ole Miss Our Future?

Sharon Lerner

Babe Lincoln

Robert Grossman

Body Heat

After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, “He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.

Mark Lotto

Stop Crying, Start Working

How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.

Katha Pollitt

Sex & the Clergy

Exit poll results indicating that 22 percent of voters ranked moral values as the most important factor in their support for a presidential candidate have occupied more than their fair share of m

Frances Kissling

Banned in the USA

To describe the election results of November 2 as a setback for LGBT rights is an understatement.

Christopher Lisotta

Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney

Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush’s bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind’s revelatory New York Times Mag