For fifty years, Judy Grahn has been helping people understand what the world means… read more

Parker was both an extraordinary poet on the page and a riveting performer of her work… read more

Grier’s life emerges as an interesting through line of lesbian activism in the twentieth century… read more

Remembering these three writers, speaking of them, writing about the work is a form of testimony… read more

I. Betsy Warland’s new book Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas travels seven years, multiple countries, and three continents. Vibrant and pulsating with life, Oscar of Between, like Warland’s other works, demonstrates Warland’s multiple engagements with crucial—and contemporary—literary, political, and aesthetic questions…. read more

“Just as the world of publishing seemed a little toy-like to me after my brush with cancer, my self-importance as a writer, the hallmark of my thirties, seems a little silly to me right now.”… read more

The Family Tooth is a collection of essays closely observed and artfully rendered; it is a creative non-fiction story that covers a period of sickness and death in one woman’s life… read more

Stone Butch Blues is a book that demands with each reading new imaginative possibilities for how to live with and revolt against sex and gender in our world… read more

Lax explores the ways in which men and women both encounter limitations in their lives through a fundamentalist religion and offers some insight into why they join. … read more

Two recent collections express documentary impulses in contemporary poetry… read more