Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A regular contributor to Salon.com, she is the author of Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; Vamps & Tramps; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Sexual Personae.
Paglia is a brilliant thinker on culture and human nature . . . Inspirational in its tone and its message that freedom belongs to both sexes -- Helen Smith * * The New Criterion * * Feminist and culture critic Paglia is at her feisty, full-throated best in this series of short manifestos that spans her career * * Publishers Weekly * * An essential work by an essential public intellectual * * VICE * * A compilation of Paglia's best, and most incendiary, previously published essays . . . At times infuriating, at times glittering, Paglia's prose is always biting and relentless * * Huffington Post * * Remarkable . . . at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant * * Washington Post * * She flies as high as you can go * * New York Times * * Polemical, thought-provoking, enraging, funny, and brave * * VICE * * Dazzling . . . Compulsively readable * * Salon * * Paglia's vision is always fresh . . . A fascinating and challenging reading companion * * The Times * * Fiercely erudite, freewheeling and sex-drenched . . . The Helen Vendler-meets-Patti Smith grad seminar you wanted but never quite got [. . . Paglia is] a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever * * New York Times * *