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The commodification of the female orgasm is a distinctly unsexy and unscientific business.
Lawal, a young Muslim woman from Katsina State in northern Nigeria, became an international cause celebre last year when she was condemned to death by stoning after being…
I have never really understood why so many people felt personally affronted by Sex and the City. The 1990s TV hit that charted sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw’s navigation of life,…
On a recent trip to New York, I passed a pleasant afternoon watching a series of unsavoury males being violently separated from their penises. The movie Teeth is an entertaining…
Kylie Minogue is not, I acknowledge, Everywoman. Everywoman does not regularly sport exotically draped jumpsuits, or find her outfits being displayed at an internationally…
Christian Bale began his acting career as a lost little boy in Empire of the Sun. Now he’s a murderer in American Psycho, writes Libby Brooks.
I’m not a fan. Which made it even more surprising, that whump in the stomach when I heard Kylie Minogue had postponed the Australian leg of her world tour after being diagnosed…
Jane Campion has made an incredibly sexy movie, and she knows it. In the Cut is being hailed as her finest work since The Piano. She tells Libby Brooks about the delights of…
Barbara Trapido left South Africa in 1963, but she revisits her homeland in her new novel, writes Libby Brooks from London.
Seven kids are swept to their deaths on a skiing trip. Seven astronauts are lost when a space shuttle breaks up over the United States. Only one story captures world attention.…
André Brink was one of South Africa’s most eloquent literary voices against apartheid. In the rainbow nation he’s now getting in touch with his feminine side, writes Libby Brooks.
Renée Zellweger has done the unthinkable — shown her cellulite on screen. Libby Brooks meets the star of Bridget Jones’s Diary.
