THE PINUP REMAINS EVER AFTER IMMORTAL AS ALL AROUND DIES<\/strong>: Fascinating Slate review of Martin Amis\u2019s new book, Yellow Dog<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u2026These plot lines are all set rolling by the same tragic flaw: the unsustainability of sexual equilibrium for your average male. \u2026<\/p>\n It is Amis\u2019 point that with the digital proliferation (and the widening cultural acceptance) of pornography, sexual equilibrium has become even more elusive. \u2026<\/p>\n [quoting Yellow Dog<\/em>:] He knew that the distance between himself and the world of women was getting greater. Each night, as he entered the Borgesian metropolis of electronic pornography\u2013with its infinities, its immortalities\u2013Clint was, in a sense, travelling towards women. But he was also travelling away from them.<\/p>\n As readers of Time\u2019s Arrow will remember, Amis is at his most brilliant when exploiting paradoxes like these, those moments when life seems to make as much sense if it\u2019s run backward or turned inside out. \u2026<\/p>\n