The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.
In 50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read, Richard Canning curates an essential roadmap through the queer literary landscape. Rather than a simple list, the book is a collection of fifty succinct essays written by a diverse group of critics, authors, and public figures. These contributors dive into works ranging from the ancient (like … Read more
A poststructuralist feminist writer bridges the distance between love and language by chronicling a passionate love affair between two women, creating a poetic meditation on desire, intimacy, and identity.
A modernist poet’s semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman in her twenties discovering her identity, sexuality, and artistic voice through an intense friendship with another woman while engaged to Ezra Pound.
The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.
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Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of
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The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall | Terry Castle | Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no