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In this meditative improvisation between biography and memoir, Scottish lesbian poet of color, Jackie Kay, reflects on Bessie Smith’s hardscrabble early life in Tennessee, the successful career she made and her transcendent artistry, while charting

The Atlantic calls Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength “quietly astonishing,” and that it is. While the book purports to be about athleticism, Bechdel’s narrative unfolds and opens onto much bigger questions about the

If any book is to have unifying potential and power, its spiritual and erotic core undivided from its politics, Mouths of Rain, An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought is such a volume. Anchored by such

In this stunning debut memoir told through linked essays, Lauren Hough reckons with the many lives she navigated in her search for a sense of freedom and acceptance. From being raised in the infamous cult

Nigerian-born author Buki Papillon’s debut novel is the story of Otolorin—known as Oto—an intersex teenager raised as a boy but with a secret desire to be a girl. Oto is sent to boarding school, where

This collection of short stories by the late Anthony Veasna So traces the assimilation of a Cambodian-American family into the California diaspora. From two drunken brothers getting revenge on an uncle for dissing the bride

The epistolary novel is very much alive and well and living in the warm California sun as Jeanne Thornton can testify. It shapes the story of Gala, a young trans woman working in a hostel

Last year, Eddy Boudel Tan’s After Elias was a finalist for our Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Now, Tan scores again with a story of a man in search of his father. All Sebastien