Ann Marlowe

  • Destination: Afghanistan

    Westerners who came here in the '70s left magnificent travel writing that captured the rugged, captivating land before war tore it apart.
    By Ann Marlowe August 24, 2006

  • One spends, the other doesn't

    Two new books promise to help women come to terms with money but instead sink into hysterical left-wing cliches about the gender gap and consumerism.
    By Ann Marlowe March 13, 2006

  • Making love across generations

    In an excerpt from her new memoir, Ann Marlowe ponders why she has been drawn to romances with much older -- and younger -- men.
    By Ann Marlowe January 30, 2006

  • The rules of attraction

    The women in Candace Bushnell's new novel are rich, smart, hardworking lovelies. So why do they need men to dominate them?
    By Ann Marlowe September 6, 2005

  • The ideas that conquered the world

    "The Neocon Reader" is must reading for liberal losers who want to get their mojo back.
    By Ann Marlowe February 4, 2005

  • "The Fall of Baghdad" by Jon Lee Anderson

    The New Yorker correspondent witnessed the fall of Saddam and the beginning of the uprising. But he fails to explore the destruction Saddam did to the souls of his people.
    By Ann Marlowe October 19, 2004

  • Burqas and ballots

    In one of the most male-dominated nations on earth, Afghan vice presidential candidate Shafiqa Habibi doesn't play second fiddle to anyone.
    By Ann Marlowe October 8, 2004

  • Sex, violence and "The Arab Mind"

    I still support the war in Iraq, but we need to rid ourselves of our perverse myths about Middle Eastern men and women.
    By Ann Marlowe June 8, 2004

  • Letters

    Is America a sociopathic child? Readers respond to Ann Marlowe's review of "Civilization and Its Enemies" by proclaiming "get stuffed!" and encouraging a New Zealand empire.
    February 27, 2004

  • "Civilization and Its Enemies" by Lee Harris

    In a brilliant response to the quandaries of 9/11, a ferociously independent thinker argues that only the United States has the moral credibility to lead.
    By Ann Marlowe February 25, 2004

  • The hypocrite of Kabul

    Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad parachuted into Afghanistan and told the West exactly what it wanted to hear about that nation's women. The truth, as usual, is more complicated.
    By Ann Marlowe November 17, 2003

  • No intercourse, please -- we're enlightened

    Sensitive, feminized and resentful, today's young men no longer have the sexual authority to please a woman -- no matter how much oral sex they perform.
    By Ann Marlowe October 1, 2003

  • What's wrong with American men and women?

    My skillful Turkish bed mate told me, in vivid detail.
    By Ann Marlowe July 29, 2003

  • As human as you and I

    A proposed ban on reproductive cloning demonstrates our irrational fear of the unknown, not the vagaries of science.
    By Ann Marlowe March 12, 2003

  • The all-too-female cluelessness of "I Don't Know How She Does It"

    When you make $750,000 a year, you don't sweat the domestic details. But the lastest hit novel about a miserable working mom is too ignorant and dishonest about money to deal with that.
    By Ann Marlowe October 23, 2002

  • Lighten up

    Readers respond to articles on feminism and the dinner bill, Bush's healthcare insanity and America's love of dysfunction.
    May 9, 2002

  • Check, please

    Some argue that the convention of men paying for women is a harmless gallantry, like holding a door open. I beg to differ.
    By Ann Marlowe May 4, 2002

  • No-man's land

    Readers respond to an essay by a book club outcast, "Why Do Women Wed?" and "Can Asians Think?"
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  • Why do women wed?

    A new book argues that women put much more work into marriage than men do, and asks why they bother.
    By Ann Marlowe March 28, 2002

  • The price of milk (and sex) in Cuba

    What is it about these poor countries? What savor do they offer us? Is it just the perfume of misery that makes us appreciate our own lives?
    By Ann Marlowe February 7, 2002

  • Bring back the draft

    Compulsory, nonmilitary national service would keep our newfound spirit of national unity alive.
    By Ann Marlowe October 5, 2001

  • Wages of sin

    Are Candace Bushnell's heroines looking for love or practicing the world's oldest profession?
    By Ann Marlowe September 22, 2000

  • "Gig"

    In an update of Studs Terkel's "Working," Americans tell all about the jobs they hate and love.
    By Ann Marlowe June 28, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Are women's magazines dead? Plus: Don't break out the Geritol for NBA players; Cardinal O'Connor was not a hero to all.
    May 9, 2000

  • Women's magazines are dead

    The death of Mirabella is a leading indicator of a new reality: Gender roles just aren't as important in daily life anymore.
    By Ann Marlowe May 5, 2000
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