Monica Baldwin | The Called And Chosen | A good study of repression and frustration in convent life, containing passim the story of Sister Helena, novice-mistress; although her behavior was
Susan Sontag | Against interpretation | Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of p
Valerie Solanas | S.C.U.M. Manifesto | Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-publ
Gertrude Stein | Paris France | Stein’s incomparable, impressionistic memoir of Paris. Published in 1940, on the day that Paris fell to the Germans, Paris France blends Stein’s child
Ruthann Robson | Sappho Goes to Law School: Fragments in Lesbian Legal Theory | Ruthann Robson’s canny, well-written essays on lesbian legal theory and pedagogy, rooted in her experience as a lesbian professor at a progressive law
Patricia Cornwell; Marlene Brown | Food To Die For | Scarpetta doesn’t just chitchat with Benton Wesley before their Hilton Head holiday in Point of Origin-she instructs him to stock up on South C
