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Mailer, Siegel and the ‘Angel of Sex’

Over at In These Times, Lindsay Beyerstein eloquently responds to the literary critic Lee Siegel’s curious assertion that Marilyn’s legacy has been ‘de-sexualised’, and in particular, his bizarre attack on Norman Mailer (who, if anything, was even more fixated by … Continue reading


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Lee Siegel: Unsexing Marilyn

On the New York Review of Books blog, the critic Lee Siegel argues that while Marilyn is America’s most famous sex symbol, her sexuality is often swept under the carpet. “She was in thrall to her sexual nature. As she once said: … Continue reading


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