Hugh Ryan | The Women’s House of Detention: a Queer History of a Forgotten Prison | This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in
De la Cretaz Britni | Hail Mary | In the early 1970s, a businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women’s football league? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt t
Girlhood Melissa Febos In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had … Read more
Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays Lauren Hough As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had … Read more
Sam Cohen | Sarahland | In Sarahland, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both demanding and thrillingl
Nina LaCour | Everything Leads To You | Just out of high school, Emi Price is a talented young set designer already beginning to thrive in the L.A. film scene. But her artistic eye has faile
Anurima Banerji | Night Artillery | Anurima Banerji is an exciting new voice in Canadian poetry. Passionate and subtly exotic, keenly aware of Persian mystical love concepts, and with a
Penner Christina | Widows of Hamilton House | this novel is part ghost story and part romance, but not as you might expect. Penner’s beautifully and thoughtfully written novel encourages you to ta
Didi Herman | The Antigay Agenda | In The Antigay Agenda, Didi Herman probes the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the organizations of the Christian Right. Tracing the emergence of thei
Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem | Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages