Hanky-Panky Then and Now (And in Our Nation’s Capital)

The Technique of the Love Affair , by A Gentlewoman. Pantheon, 222 pages, $19.95.

Satyricon USA , by Eurydice. Scribner, 256 pages, $22.

Dorothy Parker, in her New Yorker review of The Technique of the Love Affair , a 1928 how-to manual by “A Gentlewoman,” was typically wicked and plaintive: “You know how you Read More