Category: Fiction

Anne Bernays | Short Pleasures | This is a first person account of the brief decline and fall of Nicky Hapgood, during and after boarding school and college. Nicky’s parents are rathe

Henry James | The Bostonians | Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he accompanies her to a me

Ann Bannon | Journey to a Woman | It began all over again with the sudden, startling dream of Laura, the delicate creeature Beth had loved so long ago, and now Beth was amazed to find

Radclyffe Hall | The Unlit Lamp | The Unlit Lamp, is the story of Joan Ogden, a young girl who dreams of setting up a flat in London with her friend Elizabeth (a so-called Boston marri

Thrity N. Umrigar | The World We Found | As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authori

Jean Genet | The Maids | A play, accomapnied by Deathwatch, another play.

Genet drew the plot of “The Maids” from a 1933 tabloid murder but transformed the true crim

Lisa Alther | Bedrock | Clea Shawn has enjoyed marriage, motherhood, love affairs with both sexes; and she’s traveled the world. Now she has come to the seemingly idyllic New

Julia Willis | Reel Time | Laney Turner can’t say no to women. When her therapist, Roxanne, asks her out, she reluctantly agrees, and when Roxanne deserts her for another woman,

Meliza Banales | Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific | From the forests, beaches, and Xicano community of Santa Cruz to the smokey punk bars, strip clubs, and Queer-girl culture of San Francisco, these are

Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor

“[A] shrewd and lyrical