Sarah Schulman | Israel/Palestine and the Queer International | In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Pal
Barbara Sorel | Sorel in Love | The story of a failed lesbian relationship modeled on Marcel Proust’s *Swann in Love*. Sorel was a fixture of the Greenwich Village scene since the mi
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Elana Dykewomon | Beyond the Pale | Elana Dykewomon’s Lambda Award-winning novel Beyond the Pale announces itself to the world with an infant’s scream–‘a new voice, a tiny shofar
Shelly Oria | New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 | The stories in New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 are full of voices, some unnamed and others identified, that speak to a contemporary generation as they explore
Kate Jessica Raphael | Murder Under the Fig Tree | Kate Jessica Raphael’s first book lured me into this lesbian-murder-mystery tent. A political essayist and blogger whom I had long admired, Ms. Raphae
Alison Bechdel | Dykes to Watch Out For | Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist’s graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life.
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Elizabeth Swados | Flamboyant | When Chana Landau begins her job as a teacher at Harvey Milk High School, she leaves the protection of her traditional Orthodox Jewish enclave in Broo