{"id":89407,"date":"2015-09-01T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=89407"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:52:53","slug":"paperbacks-for-the-patriarchy-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/paperbacks-for-the-patriarchy-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperbacks for the Patriarchy, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89408\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bonnetbooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89408\" class=\"wp-image-89408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bonnetbooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bonnetbooks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bonnetbooks-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The perfect way to kick off your fall?<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Whatever you\u2019re reading these days, it\u2019s probably not as popular as Amish romance novels, which owe their meteoric rise, perhaps, to an old-fashioned yen for the patriarchy: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/titillated-thou\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s no mistaking the potent commercial lure of the \u2018bonnet books\u2019<\/a>\u2014so called because of the young Amish women plastered on their covers. In less than a decade, bonnet titles have overtaken bestseller lists, Christian and non-Christian alike \u2026 these novels seldom offer fare any more lurid than a much-regretted kiss. Sex is always offstage, and mere carnal longing is usually mastered by the more powerful desire to do God\u2019s will \u2026 their treatment of spiritual questions is itself oddly lustful, given their penchant for containing spiritual inquiry and experience within the strict bounds of faintly illicit-sounding modes of sectarianism and separatism.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Bromance<\/em>, <em>mandels<\/em>, <em>mansplain<\/em>, <em>man-icure<\/em>, <em>man-purse<\/em>, <em>bro-hug<\/em>, <em>manscape<\/em>,<em> man-date<\/em>: whither the explosion of Neologisms for Men\u2122? We could laud these new words as evidence of a long overdue recovery: \u201cA popular online collection of old photos shows how much American men used to casually touch each other: Victorian gentlemen posing with hands clasped; grizzled cowboys sitting with arms entwined, and a striking amount of lap-sitting. But such pictures from the middle of the twentieth century and later are rare.\u00a0 The culprit is homophobia \u2026 It turns out that straight men\u2019s need for intense, intimate relationships with each other never went anywhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2015\/08\/gender-and-language?fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/bl\/ed\/Bromance\" target=\"_blank\">as evidenced by the ebullient burst of words celebrating it<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Why, when we read, do some of us hear a voice in our head while others proceed in total quiet? And why, for that matter, did we ever begin reading in silence to ourselves, rather than aloud, to friends? \u201cSilent reading had become the norm for educated readers by the fifteenth century but even four hundred years later, <em>La Cagnotte<\/em>, Eug\u00e8ne Marin Labiche\u2019s 1864 comedy, mocks a farmer for reading a private letter aloud; the bumpkin retorts that he can\u2019t understand what he reads unless he hears it \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/122665\/silent-reading-doesnt-exist\" target=\"_blank\">Recent neurological research questions whether silent reading actually is silent<\/a>. Evidence grows that the brain interprets \u2018silent\u2019 reading as an auditory phenomenon.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/glass-surfaces-and-still-pools-28-and-qqqqqq\/\" target=\"_blank\">More art from Aidan Koch<\/a>, whose portfolio lit up our Summer issue: her work will be on view next month at And Now, in Dallas.<\/li>\n<li>Bored? Hang out with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/croissants-with-cthulhu\" target=\"_blank\"> H. P. Lovecraft fans at the Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast<\/a>, why don\u2019t you. And have a croissant while you\u2019re at it. \u201cIn time, we were tapped to hit the buffet line, which snaked down the hotel\u2019s corridor. \u2018An ouroboros!\u2019 exclaimed my neighbor, as we shuffled towards bacon and croissants. A sliver of fruit fell to the carpet. \u2018The cantaloupe of Thoth!\u2019 someone cried.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you\u2019re reading these days, it\u2019s probably not as popular as Amish romance novels, which owe their meteoric rise, perhaps, to an old-fashioned yen for the patriarchy: \u201cThere\u2019s no mistaking the potent commercial lure of the \u2018bonnet books\u2019\u2014so called because of the young Amish women plastered on their covers. 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