I'm honored to have written an essay on the genius Marilyn Monroe for Playboy Magazine's cover story. My essay "The Nude Marilyn" (it's really not about her being nude necessarily — it's a lot more than that) along with Roger Ebert's "A Sense of Control" and John Updike's "A Broken Venus" are not available for online reading (though Playboy offers a peek of MM here) so pick up a copy of the print edition on newsstands now.

As Updike wrote, "like a broken marble Venus, she defies time."