Case of a Lifetime by Abbe Smith
Abbe Smith | Case of a Lifetime | A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA e
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The Strange Necessity by Margaret C. Anderson
Margaret C. Anderson | The Strange Necessity | The last installment in her biography, coveringher life in Le Cannet.
Hunger by Roxane Gay
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
The Passionate Exiles by Maurice Levaillant
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
Reflecting on the Well of Loneliness by Rebecca O’Rourke
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
Blood Strangers by Katherine A. Briccetti
Katherine A. Briccetti | Blood Strangers | A powerful and nuanced tale about the search for family
Blood Strangers is a captivating, multigenerational story of an alternative family. I
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf
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
The End of Eve by Ariel Gore
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,
Apples and Oranges by Jan Clausen
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
Telling Moments by Lynda Hall
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