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By Jim Holt 6/21/99 12:00am

What Is Art? What Is Money? Amusing Answers Below

Boggs: A Comedy of Values , by Lawrence Weschler. University of Chicago Press, 160 pages, $22.

A man called J.S.G. Boggs has found the most perfect method of making art. It is transgressive, yet it involves precise draftsmanship and other technical skills. It is conceptual, even philosophical, yet it results in tangible and enduring objects-objects Read More

By Jim Holt 3/01/99 12:00am

What Do Women Want? Hint: Batteries Required

The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction , by Rachel P. Maines. Johns Hopkins University Press, 181 pages, $22.

What is sex? A woman trying to come and a man trying not to. This sad little joke sums up the tragedy of sexual intercourse: its lack of orgasmic mutuality.

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