Cristina Nehring

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Cristina Nehring is an award-winning essayist, scholar, travel writer and memoirist known for her spirited and contrarian reflections on issues as diverse as dating and drinking, Shakespeare, love poetry and intellectual snobs.

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Cristina Nehring on the New Erotic Fundamentalism

BLANK Aug 21, 2009 Are Americans sacrificing the possibility of a more tolerant humanity for a suffocating guarantee of fidelity, a frigid prospect that seemingly unites the commissars of the politically correct left as much as it does the thought police of the puritanical right?Are Americans sacrificing the possibility of a more tolerant humanity for a suffocating guarantee of marital fidelity? Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Cristina Nehring on What’s Wrong With the American Essay

Cristina Nehring / Truthdig Nov 30, 2007 One of our most trenchant critics takes a withering look at how contemporary essayists in a global world have gone increasingly, foolishly, local. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )