Books by Lee Siegel

Intends to demonstrate that hynotism is an essential aspect of our most significant relationships, an inherent dimension of love, religion, medicine, politics, and literature, a fundamental dynamic between lover and beloved, deity and votary, physician and patient, ruler and subject, and, indeed, reader and listener.

From renowned critic Lee Siegel--hailed as a model of "original thinking and passionate writing"--a sometimes scathing, always thrilling examination of the state of contemporary art and culture, and beyond

A love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce and a murder mystery. The hero of the comedy, Leopold Roth, complains that he has never made love to an Indian woman. Married Roth becomes obsessed with Lalita Gupta and sets out to seduce her whilst translating the "Kama sutra".