RaveThe New YorkerShane’s writing has an exposing, unmediated style ... What makes Shane a more adept interpreter of gendered suffering and sexual autonomy than many of her contemporaries is her attunement to both the mechanics of the body and the ruses of the psyche ... Shane is compelled by the numinous attraction that pulls her toward sexual partners, and the unguarded tenderness that certain clients feel toward her. The task of her writing is to take these appetites seriously ... For Shane, prying out the splinters of masculine threat lodged inside her has been the work of a life.
