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  • What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

    by Mark Doty ...
    “[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book ReviewMark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • February House

    The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn

    An “irresistible” account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn (The Washington Post Book World).A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFebruary House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers—and America’s best-known burlesque performer—in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn. It ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • By Your Side

    The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga

    The Untold Story of Lesbian Love in Japanese Anime and ComicsThis landmark work is an accessible, educational, and exciting collection of essays on the newest genre of Japanese anime and manga by the Western Hemisphere's foremost scholar on the subject, Erica Friedman."The first in-depth study of Yuri in English."-James Welker, Professor of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies, Kanagawa University ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • It Came from the Closet

    Queer Reflections on Horror

    Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition (A Oscar Wilde Classics)

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine issue. The novel-length version was published in April 1891. The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

    Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel’s first editor, who feared it would be “offensive” to Victorians. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How To Be Gay

    A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

    A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

    As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Eminent Outlaws

    The Gay Writers Who Changed America

    This “standard text of the defining era of gay literati” tells the cultural history of the interconnected lives of the 20th century's most influential gay writers (Philadelphia Inquirer).In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Heaven

    One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books by LGBTQ AuthorsEmerson Whitney writes, "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is that mess-electrifying, gorgeous, defiant.At Heaven's center, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inseparable

    Desire Between Women in Literature

    by Emma Donoghue ...
    From a writer of astonishing versatility and erudition, the much-admired literary critic, novelist, short-story writer, and scholar (“Dazzling”—The Washington Post; “One of those rare writers who seems to be able to work on any register, any time, any atmosphere, and make it her own” —The Observer), a book that explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Aberrations in Black

    Toward a Queer of Color Critique

    Series series Critical American Studies
    A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American cultureThe sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture—sexual difference—can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Don't Read Poetry

    A Book About How to Read Poems

    An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy

    by C.P. Cavafy ...
    Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn ...
    An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost.No ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Between Women

    Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

    by Sharon Marcus ...
    Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Post-Borderlandia

    Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique

    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Honorable Mention, 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association2019 Lambda Literary Awards FinalistBringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Between Men

    English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Shape of Sex

    Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

    by Leah DeVun ...
    Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of ReligionHonorable Mention, 2023 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH)Longlisted, 20... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Lesbian Images

    Essays

    by Jane Rule ...
    Jane Rule’s fourth book explores lesbianism as portrayed by authors from Gertrude Stein to Colette, from Vita Sackville-West to May Sarton and Willa CatherLesbian Images opens with a disclaimer from the author: “This book is not intended to be a comprehensive literary or cultural history of lesbians.” Rather, as Jane Rule goes on to tell us, her goal is to present her own attitudes and measure ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old Futures

    Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility

    Series Book 10 - Postmillennial Pop
    Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • On Not Being Someone Else

    Tales of Our Unled Lives

    “To be someone—to be anyone—is about…not being someone else. Miller’s amused and inspired book is utterly compelling.”—Adam Phillips“A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been…Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about the unreal ones. Still, there will be moments when, for good or ill, we feel confronted by our unrealized possibilities.”—New YorkerWe live one life, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Transgender Hormones

    by Jena Oslisher ...
    Do you want to know about how the transgender personaity thinks and reason?Get this book to understand their life, from relationship to parenting to lesbians to bisexuals and lots more. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 14-Minute Marcel Proust: A Very Short Guide to the Greatest Novel Ever Written

    by Stephen Fall ...
    Today it's called In Search of Lost Time, though an earlier generation knew it as Remembrance of Things Past. Under whatever title, and whichever translator, Proust's gargantuan novel has challenged English-speaking readers for nearly a century.Over the course of twelve months, Stephen Fall tackled the recent and lovely Penguin/Viking editions, blogging on the internet as he read. He devotes a ... Read more

    $4.95 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus