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By Leon Neyfakh 8/12/08 9:08pm

More on Those Bonobo Books: Daphne Merkin Explains Everything

Yesterday, Media Mob reported the baffling fact that this photo of bonobos doing it had been used as the cover of two totally unrelated recently published books: Susan Squire’s I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage and Francis Levy’s independently-published novel about sex and carnality Erotomania. We also reported that Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 8/11/08 8:48pm

Same Photo of Bonobos Doing It Appears on the Cover of Two New Books; Daphne Merkin Blurbs Both

Two new books that came out days apart but have absolutely nothing to do with each other both feature on their covers the same photo of two bonobos having sex with each other in the missionary position. The photo is a pretty famous black-and-white one taken by the primatologist Frans de Waal; the books Read More

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