Author Sophie Strohmeier

sophie-strohmeier

Cover of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy, by Leslie Brody. Black text in orange and yellow boxes over a monochrime photo of Louise Fitzhugh smiling towards the viewer. She is a pale skinned woman with short hair and she is laying on her front with half her face covered by her elbows.

The Creative Brilliance of Louise Fitzhugh: On Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody

Sophie Strohmeier

November 22, 2021 9 min read

Louise Fitzhugh, the charismatic lesbian author of Harriet the Spy, now has a biography— Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody. Read More

Wagnerism

Wagnerism Grapples with Richard Wagner’s Complex Legacy

Sophie Strohmeier

November 24, 2020 9 min read

“Are you peculiarly fond of Wagner?” — a query from a 1908 public questionnaire by gay writer Xavier Mayne, in...

Fingerplay and Handmaidens: The Queer and Subversive Pleasures of Reading Sarah Waters

Sophie Strohmeier

November 30, 2016 5 min read

In Sarah Waters' writing, historical queer female desire is inferred, inserted, and re-imagined Read More