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'Vagina': The Authorized Biography?

Paul Raeburn | Posted 11.18.2012 | Books
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Paul Raeburn

I have not read the book. And I don't plan to. But I thought I should note that Vagina: A New Biography, by the feminist writer Naomi Wolf, has drawn scorn from science bloggers and literary critics alike.

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Studs, Pigs and Dogs: Renaissance Portraits at the Met

Daniel Maidman | Posted 05.15.2012 | Arts
Read More: Ercole I D'Este, Laura Gilbert, Beauty Myth, Portraits, Renaissance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Savelli Sperandio, Sculpture, Eleonora of Aragon, Mino Da Fiesole, Orsino Benintendi, Lorenzo De Medici, Niccolò Di Leonardo Strozzi, Arts News
Daniel Maidman

2012-05-15-201205091.jpgAll commissioned portraits testify to the wealth of their subjects. But Niccolò's portrait speaks more clearly than most. Straining my ear, I thought I heard him whispering across the centuries.

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