PHILIPPA SNOW - EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK DAVID LYNCH) PRE ORDER

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What can David Lynch, the iconic surrealist auteur, teach us about sex? More than you might think. In this essay, the critic Philippa Snow explores some of Lynch’s classic tales of (this is the) girl meets boy, and examines the—kinky, odd, insightful, sometimes questionable, always surprising—ways that he depicts sex, and heterosexual relationships, in seven of his films: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire.

About the author: Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist, based in Norfolk, England. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, ArtReview, The White Review, Vogue and the TLS, among many others.

She is the author of Which as You Know Means Violence (Repeater, 2022)Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object (Mack, 2024)Snow Business (Isolarii, 2025)It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame (Virago, 2025)

Finished size: USA A5 Portrait (216 x 140mm)

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24 Pages