Ann Marlowe

Destination: Afghanistan

Westerners who came here in the '70s left magnificent travel writing that captured the rugged, captivating land before war tore it apart.

Ann Marlowe Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 11:30 AM UTC
Entertainment Afghanistan

One spends, the other doesn’t

Two new books promise to help women come to terms with money but instead sink into hysterical left-wing cliches about the gender gap and consumerism.

Ann Marlowe Monday, Mar 13, 2006 12:46 PM UTC 19
Entertainment Books

Making love across generations

In an excerpt from her new memoir, Ann Marlowe ponders why she has been drawn to romances with much older -- and younger -- men.

Ann Marlowe Monday, Jan 30, 2006 11:32 AM UTC 17
Entertainment Memoirs, Books

The rules of attraction

The women in Candace Bushnell's new novel are rich, smart, hardworking lovelies. So why do they need men to dominate them?

Ann Marlowe Tuesday, Sep 6, 2005 5:52 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

The ideas that conquered the world

"The Neocon Reader" is must reading for liberal losers who want to get their mojo back.

Ann Marlowe Saturday, Feb 5, 2005 2:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Books

“The Fall of Baghdad” by Jon Lee Anderson

The New Yorker correspondent witnessed the fall of Saddam and the beginning of the uprising. But he fails to explore the destruction Saddam did to the souls of his people.

Ann Marlowe Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Afghanistan, Religion, Iraq war

Burqas and ballots

In one of the most male-dominated nations on earth, Afghan vice presidential candidate Shafiqa Habibi doesn't play second fiddle to anyone.

Ann Marlowe Friday, Oct 8, 2004 7:22 PM UTC
News Afghanistan

Sex, violence and “The Arab Mind”

I still support the war in Iraq, but we need to rid ourselves of our perverse myths about Middle Eastern men and women.

Ann Marlowe Tuesday, Jun 8, 2004 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Iraq war, Neoconservatism

“Civilization and Its Enemies” by Lee Harris

In a brilliant response to the quandaries of 9/11, a ferociously independent thinker argues that only the United States has the moral credibility to lead.

Ann Marlowe Wednesday, Feb 25, 2004 9:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Religion, Al-Qaida, Nonfiction

The hypocrite of Kabul

Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad parachuted into Afghanistan and told the West exactly what it wanted to hear about that nation's women. The truth, as usual, is more complicated.

Ann Marlowe Monday, Nov 17, 2003 9:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Afghanistan, Nonfiction, Books

No intercourse, please — we’re enlightened

Sensitive, feminized and resentful, today's young men no longer have the sexual authority to please a woman -- no matter how much oral sex they perform.

Ann Marlowe Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003 7:22 PM UTC
Life Sex, Gender, Love and Sex

What’s wrong with American men and women?

My skillful Turkish bed mate told me, in vivid detail.

Ann Marlowe Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003 7:15 PM UTC
Life Sex, Love and Sex

As human as you and I

A proposed ban on reproductive cloning demonstrates our irrational fear of the unknown, not the vagaries of science.

Ann Marlowe Wednesday, Mar 12, 2003 8:21 PM UTC
All Salon

The all-too-female cluelessness of “I Don’t Know How She Does It”

When you make $750,000 a year, you don't sweat the domestic details. But the lastest hit novel about a miserable working mom is too ignorant and dishonest about money to deal with that.

Ann Marlowe Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002 10:55 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

Check, please

Some argue that the convention of men paying for women is a harmless gallantry, like holding a door open. I beg to differ.

Ann Marlowe Saturday, May 4, 2002 7:35 PM UTC
Life

Why do women wed?

A new book argues that women put much more work into marriage than men do, and asks why they bother.

Ann Marlowe Thursday, Mar 28, 2002 8:06 PM UTC
Entertainment Coupling, Books

The price of milk (and sex) in Cuba

What is it about these poor countries? What savor do they offer us? Is it just the perfume of misery that makes us appreciate our own lives?

Ann Marlowe Thursday, Feb 7, 2002 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Sex, Cuba, Travel, Love and Sex

Bring back the draft

Compulsory, nonmilitary national service would keep our newfound spirit of national unity alive.

Ann Marlowe Friday, Oct 5, 2001 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment

Wages of sin

Are Candace Bushnell's heroines looking for love or practicing the world's oldest profession?

Ann Marlowe Friday, Sep 22, 2000 7:18 PM UTC
Entertainment Sex and the City, Sex Work, Books

“Gig”

In an update of Studs Terkel's "Working," Americans tell all about the jobs they hate and love.

Ann Marlowe Wednesday, Jun 28, 2000 7:02 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

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