Professor Honoré de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
Sylvia Bertin | The Last Innocence (La Dernière Innocence) | Story of Paula, a member of a French provincial family. “The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated as a matter of course … that she wears trouse
Anne Garréta | Not One Day | “What’s to be done with our inclinations?” asks Anne Garréta in the first sentence of her newest book, Not One Day. The text that ensues is an explora
Fiona Cooper | The Empress of the Seven Oceans | ‘It is the swashbuckling seventeenth century, and witch-burning and superstition are sweeping England. Puritanism and paranoia abound. An old soak sal
Adolphe Belot | Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme | ‘The sensational Mademoiselle Giraud, my Wife (originally published in 1870 with a preface by Zola) tells of the suffering of a naive young man whose
Myron Brinig | The Looking Glass Heart | Beautiful Sally Greenshields has grown accustomed to be spoiled. Her striking green eyes and stuffing good looks are traded for accommodations made fo
Emily George | Sappho’s Wild Lesbians | ‘This book belongs to all the lesbians who were on the beach Lesbos during summer of 83.’
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LaShonda Katrice Barnett | Jam on the Vine | Recall your first reading of a favorite book: pulse quickening with resonance, your fascination with this new, yet familiar, world fueled by desire to
Archibald Clavering Gunter; Fergus Redmond | A Florida Enchantment | Lilly Travers is an independent woman who likes to dance with other women and for whom ‘eternal vigilance means safety from discovery.’ At a dance, Li
Alexis De Veaux | Yabo | Alexis De Veaux laces together the past and the present with poetic elegance in an intricate and delicate pattern of call and response. …Echoing the