“Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother’s happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the…
“Monette recalls his tortured youth as a gay man, during which he tried to imitate straight men and pursued heartbreaking affections,…
“The novel’s narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-…
“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls…
“Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the pre-feminist ‘60s and then to pass as a man in order to…
“In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds…
How presidents lead—or fail to—is the central concern of this pointed analysis of political leadership in America. Beginning with a solid…