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These are narratives she dexterously braids with William Faulkner’s “The Golden Land,” which, if not Faulkner’s best work, paints a cautionary picture of youthful libertinage in sunny Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021

The opposition between puritanism and libertinage is a chestnut of French ideology.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2018

"The limits have not been defined between libertinage and harassment in France."

From Time • May 26, 2011

Readers, here's your chance to strike a blow for literary libertinage: What are your favorites?

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011

His face, the features of which were, generally speaking, regular, wore nevertheless an expression of brutal libertinage, and when his eyes tried to express merriment they became sea-green, watery, like those of a wild beast.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Kock, Charles Paul de