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Erotica

  • #ReadInstead litfest: How to write erotica

    #ReadInstead litfest: How to write erotica

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 21, 2020 · 12:58 pm
  • Why the ‘Fifty Shades’ books have a lot in common with a story from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’

    Why the ‘Fifty Shades’ books have a lot in common with a story from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’

    Marta Cobb, The Conversation
    · Feb 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • Three thousand years of erotica are fabulously encapsulated, but can’t erotica only be about sex?

    Three thousand years of erotica are fabulously encapsulated, but can’t erotica only be about sex?

    Madhavi Menon
    · Sep 08, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • The erotic in the Indian imagination: A conflict between the romantics and the traditionalists

    The erotic in the Indian imagination: A conflict between the romantics and the traditionalists

    Amrita Narayanan
    · Sep 02, 2017 · 06:30 pm
  • Meet the writer who made erotica and murder mate with art in a smash-hit series (and is funny, too)

    Meet the writer who made erotica and murder mate with art in a smash-hit series (and is funny, too)

    Devapriya Roy
    · Jul 01, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • This clever form of erotica is a novel that tells a quite different story about Indian immigrants

    This clever form of erotica is a novel that tells a quite different story about Indian immigrants

    Balli Kaur Jaswal
    · Apr 12, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Though full of clichés, these erotic stories delve into what’s dark and dangerous about desire

    Though full of clichés, these erotic stories delve into what’s dark and dangerous about desire

    Jai Arjun Singh
    · Feb 11, 2017 · 12:30 pm