A Year in Reading: Sophia Stewart
Heterosexuality—what is it good for? This was the question that propelled much of my reading in 2023. I started off with ‘s indispensable , which traces the project of heterosexuality over time. It was surprising, but vindicating, to see just how much propaganda has been required over the centuries to convince straight men and women to like (or, rather, ) each other. In the present day, Ward attends seduction boot camps for men and parses sexist self-help schlock to give a definitive account of twenty-first-century straight culture. The picture she
