Historian. Novelist. Greedy Woman.

Lustful Appetites is here!

Rachel Hope Cleves


Reviews and podcasts are starting to appear. Read or listen at these links:

Kirkus review

Wall Street Journal review by Daniel Akst

Lisa Hilton’s review in the Times Literary Supplement

Mei Chin’s review in the Irish Times

Brief excerpt in the Paris Review

Interview with Suzanne Harrington in the Irish Independent:

Podcast interview with Miranda Melcher of the New Books Network

Podcast interview with Kelly Therese Pollock of Unsung History

Podcast interview with Liz Williams of Tip of the Tongue

Podcast interview with Anita Rao of Embodied

Podcast interview with Justin Lehmiller of Sex and Psychology podcast

Podcast interview with Tommy Mischke

There will be more links on the way. Check back here for news.

and here’s a QR code to order the book!

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Professor of history at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Author of five books. Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex (2024). A Second Chance for Yesterday (2023). Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (2020). Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2014). Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (2009).

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