Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o
Maurice Levaillant | The Passionate Exiles | Historical “dual biography” of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier. Researchers tend not to take the written declarations of love as indications of se
Rebecca O’Rourke | Reflecting on the Well of Loneliness | A feminist reading of Radcliffe Hall’s international bestseller and her both inspiring and infuriating heroine Stephen Gordon. She includes a fascinat
Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr
Ariel Gore | The End of Eve | “I remembered what my friend China wrote in her punk parenting zine when we were young moms. I want to be the female Bukowski, the female Burroughs,
Jan Clausen | Apples and Oranges | After more than a decade of ‘marriage’ to a woman with whom she was raising a daughter, Jan Clausen fell in love with a man, stunning herself and the
Lynda Hall | Telling Moments | Telling Moments collects contemporary short stories by a diverse group of twenty-four lesbian writers. Engaging themes of life and death, agin
Candace Gingrich | The Accidental Activist | When the Republican landslide of 1994 propelled her brother, Newt Gingrich, to the top of national politics, Candace Gingrich knew her life would neve
