The Best Spicy Romance Novels, According to Ali Hazelwood

These steamy reads bring the emotion and the heat.

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Gillian Anderson Never Got Bored Reading Other Women’s Sexual Fantasies

Her own is among the anonymous tales included in “Want,” a new collection she has edited: “It only felt right, given I was requesting courage from everyone else.”

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What Really Happened Inside This Nazi Brothel?

In “The Madam and the Spymaster,” a trio of journalists probe the story of a German bordello that purportedly doubled as a listening post. Charlotte Shane | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies

BY RACHEL BRIAN | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

In ‘Anonymous Sex,’ No Strings — and No Bylines

BY ALLISON P. DAVIS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent

BY JENNIFER SZALAI | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

What Makes Someone Seek Pain for Pleasure?

BY BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle

By Kristen Millares Young | Washington Post Books | Disclosure

Embracing the sprawling contradictions of ‘freedom’

By Meara Sharma | Washington Post Books | Disclosure

The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Author Finishes What She Started (and Restarted)

BY ALEXANDRA ALTER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

‘Let’s Talk About the Hard Things’ makes a compelling case that we should

By Nneka McGuire | Washington Post Books | Disclosure

Looking for Sexual Healing?

BY JUDITH NEWMAN | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Bad Sex in Fiction Award Is Canceled, as 2020 Was Bad Enough

BY ALAN YUHAS via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Shere Hite, Who Challenged Myths of Female Sexuality, Dies at 77

BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE via NYTimes Books | Disclosure

‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More

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