Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o
Francine J. Harris | Play Dead | ‘This book talks smack. This book chews with its open mouth full of the juiciest words, the most indigestible images. This book undoes me. Francine J.
June Jordan | Directed By Desire | “Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”–Alice Walker “Always urgent, inspiring, a
Ann Novotny | Alice’s World | In Alice’s World: The life and Photography of An American Original: Alice Austen, T556-1952 (New York: Chatham Press, 1976), Ann Novotny gave us the i
Audrey Cefaly | The Gulf | Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing
Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr
Alexis De Veaux | Yabo | Alexis De Veaux laces together the past and the present with poetic elegance in an intricate and delicate pattern of call and response. …Echoing the
Angela Du Maurier | The Little Less | A story of a woman whose emotional life never quite comes to fruition, first because her passion in early maturity is centered on a woman, beautiful,
