Erica Jong

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Observer’s Guide to 2025’s Best Memoirs and Biographies, From ABBA to Ono

Misunderstood artists. Legendary music icons. A forgotten Golden Age film star. These life stories deserve space in your reading pile.

By Nathan Smith

Fearless at 50: 10 Lessons for Turning the Big 5-0

We live in the ultimate ageist society where youth is glorified and age is treated as a miserable disease.

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Zip Replacement: Erica Jong Revisits ‘Fear of Flying’

Forty years ago, poet-writer Erica Jong published her daring first novel, Fear of Flying. In it, she torched conventional assumptions

By Stephanie Fairyington

Katha Politt to Erica Jong: Stop Fussing

By Emily Witt

Molly Jong-Fast on Her Upbringing: ‘I Was Like, “Shut Up!”‘

By Daniel D'Addario

Faminist Theory

By Irina Aleksander

Erica Jong Calls Herself Her Husband’s ‘Deck Monkey’

By Leon Neyfakh

Paterson’s Choice: The Feminist Versus the Woman

By Katharine Jose

Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss ‘Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets’

By Jason Horowitz

Fashion Roundup: Burberry’s Waiting List; Erin Wasson Gives Props to Homeless People; What Carla Bruni Wore to Meet the Pope

By Irina Aleksander

Taibbi: Mocking People is Easy; TV is Hard

By Matt Haber

Erica Jong and Matt Taibbi in Heated Huffpo Flab-Flap

By Matt Haber

Walter Cronkite Hasn’t Lost His Religion

By David Foxley

The Jong-Fast Family

By Lizzy Ratner

The Transom

By Observer Staff

Jong Redefines ‘Sapphic’ Along Omnisexual Lines

By Minna Proctor

Fountain of Youth? No Thanks

By Anne Roiphe

New York Supergals Love That Naughty Prez

By Francine Prose