Olympia, by Édouard Manet, 1863. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

Eros

Volume II, Number 1 | winter 2009

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Transits of Venus

Lewis H. Lapham

Eros Between the Covers

Francine Prose

Not About the Money

William H. Gass

Affairs of State

William Rosen

Fear and Loathing

Dagmar Herzog

Up Close and Personal

Noga Arikha

Hell House

Jeff Sharlet

Map

The Grand Tour

Miscellany

Voices In Time

To Harold Nicolson

1929 | Kent

Rowing in Eden

c. 1861 | Amherst, MA

Plato’s Other Half

c. 378 BC | Athens

The Bread of Angels

c. 1919 | Paris

A Candle in the Sun

1914 | St. Petersburg

The Flesh Is Weak

c. 210 | Carthage

Arriving Prematurely

c. 1670 | Oxfordshire

Give and Get

1998 | New York City

Defying Modesty

1928 | Paris

Sweet Regret

1694 | London

Winter Moon

23 BC | Rome

In Praise of Older Women

1745 | Philadelphia

Failing to Rise to the Occasion

1684 | London

On Your Knees

1869 | Galicia

The Actual State of Sex

1976 | Paris

Topography

c. 800 | India

Royal Ardor

1528 | London

Not Like This Before

c. 1250 | Konya

To Virginia Woolf

1927 | Milan

Human Animals

1948 | Bloomington

Sharing the Apple

1818 | London

Deciding to Wait

1935 | Watts

The Mead of Heaven

c. 1365 | Shiraz

I Dare Not Withdraw

1856 | Brooklyn

Treasure on Earth

c. 950 BC | Jerusalem

The Brambles of Lust

c. 397 | Hippo

Thou Shalt Not

c. 1440 BC | Sinai

Sweet Sorrow

1595 | Verona

Charts and Graphs

Shock and Awe

Lonely Hearts

A Decade of Impotent Prose

Getting in the Mood

A Kingdom for a Kiss

Carnal Knowledge

Polymorphously Perverse

Contributors

Conversations

Molière & Albert Camus

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The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.
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Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

c. 1850:

Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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