A new Kate Scarpetta novel is always highly anticipated by devotees of lesbian detective fiction. Patricia Cornwell has been much...
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The Ladder, the first lesbian magazine to be nationally distributed in the U.S., began publishing in 1956 and continued to...
Julia Penelope was from another era, an era that is truly bygone. Unlike those other theorists, her work was so controversial, so revolutionary, so for lesbians only that what she said often created outrage, even among other lesbians and feminists. Read More
Some of our finest writers are authors of crime fiction. Russell Banks, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, P.D. James and of course, Val McDermid. These writers don’t just tell a detective tale, they peel back the layers of human experience to reveal all the gory bits we try never to see up close. Read More
I’m not sure how old I was when I fell in love with film, but it was early. My parents...
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune 20 years ago, Gerda Lerner said, "When I started working on women’s history about 30 years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think women had a history worth knowing." Read More
I can’t remember when freedom of speech didn’t matter to me. Perhaps it was from growing up with activist parents...
Rakoff was a marvelous mimic, a fabulous raconteur, a warm, funny, mensch of a guy. He wrote incisively and with what the Fifties Beat poets called "cool," but he was incredibly down-to-earth: you heard it in his pieces for "This American Life" on NPR which are so compelling and different and thought-provoking. And funny. So funny. Read More
It’s always a loss when the great die. It’s less of a loss when they die leaving so much of themselves behind. Vidal lived life more fully than most people can ever envision. Despite his assertion of his icy bastardliness as a person, his work shines and pivots, sparkles and entrances. Read More