Phallus interruptus; culture watch. (John and Lorena Bobbitt)

The Nation | November 22, 1993| | Copyright

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

This dispatch from the zone of dread would not have been necessary had Tina Brown chosen to publish in The New Yorker an article she commissioned from Gay Talese on John Wayne Bobbitt's wayward penis. I can't imagine a better magazine assignment, in the impish spirit of William Shawn, unless The New York Review of Books should decide to send Philip Roth to Manassas, Virginia, for the trial of Lorena Bobbitt on charges of "malicious wounding," for ...

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