Aishah Shahidah Simmons | Love WITH Accountability | 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner for best LGBTQ anthology! Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abu
Noam Sienna | A Rainbow Thread | For many queer Jews, Jewish tradition seems like a rich tapestry which at best ignores them and at worst rejects them entirely. In this groundbreaking
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.
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Evelyn Torton Beck | Nice Jewish Girls | A stunning collection of angry, bitter, proud, and joyful writing–poetry, stories, history, analysis, autobiography–on Jewish lesbian identity. With