"Jonathan Goldberg brought thought and sex to a greater level of intimacy by working with and through language, literary and other" — read Marcie Frank's "Jonathan Goldberg's Intimate Imagination" here: differencesjournal.org/dossiers/gol...

"What weaves its way through Sufi poetry is a conviction that desire is in fact the universal solvent, rather than the consolidator, of identity" — read Madhavi Menon's "The 'open Rs' of Layli and Majnun" here: differencesjournal.org/dossiers/gol...

"Among the most productive things Jonathan helped set me thinking about for my own work […] was the fundamental question of 'What counts as sex?' — the possibilities for which he kept unfixed, open-ended" — read Richard Rambuss's "What Counts as Sex?" here: differencesjournal.org/dossiers/gol...

"In the shameless, unrepulsed collapse of mouth into anus, it’s not just our waste but our words that are let go to be incorporated by others" — read @zachsamalin.bsky.social's "Letting Go and Checking Out" here: differencesjournal.org/dossiers/gol...