'Kafka Was the Rage' by Anatole Broyard


You, your friends, your mother and most strangers on the sidewalk or the subway know not only the name and reputation of the S&M trilogy which begins with 'Fifty Shades of Grey', but likely more than a few intimate details about the story. As happy as we are that people are reading, the truth is that this so-called mommy-porn tale is nothing more than a slightly naughty, poorly written melodrama. The following ten erotic books are alternatives we at Time Out find riskier, sexier and simply better written than E.L. James’s feminist-baiting juvenilia.
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