Ms Hardwick makes the question of Melville's homo-eroticism deeply interesting in this connection.

ECONOMIST: American writers

It should come as no surprise that Baker, a distinguished man of letters, should nevertheless be interested in the lees of eroticism.

NEWYORKER: Blue Period

The bolted door is both what gives Massimo Cuori, the talented young author who is the novel's narrator, access to eroticism and what keeps him from it.

ECONOMIST: Fiction from France

The surprisingly sharp topics that arise in interviews (filmed mainly in black-and-white) include eroticism, poverty, mediatized violence, gender equality, gay marriage, the power of advertising, and the deformation of minds and manners by television.

NEWYORKER: Land of Milk and Honey