By Alexandra Jacobs 7/17/00 12:00am

Home, Sweet Sexy Home: The Erotics of Real Estate

Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses , by Marjorie Garber. Pantheon, 243 pages, $23.

As I write this, the birds chirp; the trees rustle in the breeze; and my live-in sits upstairs with The New York Times Real Estate section creased hopefully under one fist and a telephone clutched in the other, punting Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 10/11/99 12:00am

Keats and the Supermodels: The Truth About Beauty

Is Truth Beauty? Is Beauty Truth? Sometimes it’s useful to be reminded that what passes for eternal wisdom may not have the unshakable foundation that mere rote repetition has endowed it with.

Consider the equation of Truth and Beauty that appears in John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” for instance. A thought-provoking essay by Read More