Nell Zink | Mislaid | ‘Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingenue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and pro
Olivier Vallerand | Unplanned Visitors | Sexuality and gender have long been influential in understanding the construction of domestic space, its meanings, often revealing a binary division o
Melissa Faliveno | Tomboyland | A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell
Jenn Shapland | My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers | While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named
Lisa Rogak | Rachel Maddow | ‘The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news. Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that’s novel in today’s America: she uses he
Yvonne Rainer | Feelings Are Facts | If you’re interested in Plato, you’re reading the wrong book. If you’re interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural
Yvonne Rainer | A woman who– | Yvonne Rainer is one of the most important feminist, avant-garde filmmakers working today. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer, and was
Virginie Despentes | Les chiennes savantes | Nous sommes à Lyon, sur les pentes de la Croix-Rousse. Lucie travaille comme strip-teaseuse. Elle rencontre un mauvais garçon, Victor, qui la manipule
Will Roscoe; Stephen O. Murray | Boy-Wives and Female Husbands | Claims concerning the presence and status of homosexuality in historic African cultures have become central points of contention in debates among cont
