In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, ....

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.Each chapter views the relationship ....

To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, to inhabit the wolrd as an outsider. Seeking her own origins, Saidiya Hartman follows a slave route back to Ghana, tracing the history of the Atlantic trade. But there are no known survivors of her lineage, no relatives to find. She is a stranger in search of ....

At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free.These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside ....