Bright Particular Star by Joseph Leach
Joseph Leach | Bright Particular Star | I thought at first that Mr. Leach had adopted too fictional a tone for this long biography. Facts are communicated as they might have impinged on thos
Autobiography/Biography
Love in Good Time by Claire Robson
Claire Robson | Love in Good Time | This memoir is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly poignant. It is a coming-out story that tackles the trade-offs some gay people make a
Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell
Ria Brodell | Butch Heroes | Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambitious and wonderfully celebratory ode to the lives of 28 people over many centuries ‘assigned female at birth’ w
I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro | I’m Just a Person | In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she
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
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