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I rule with cunt power,' Inanna announces early in Judy Grahn's latest book. 'I see with cunt eyes.' Inanna is the 'goddess of erotic love,' protector of sex workers and [...]

The Professor and Other Writings By Terry Castle New York: HarperCollins, 2010, 352 pp., $25.99, hardcover Academia is filled with refugees. There are literal refugees, of course--like the professor from [...]

M Train By Patti Smith New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, 272 pp., $25.00, hardcover Patti Smith has lost a sock. It is a special sock, 'a pale brown cotton [...]

The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 By Susan S. Lanser Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 345 pp., $32.50, paperback While it may be true that [...]

Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress by Nina Auerbach. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, 192 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Haunting is a powerful metaphor for this book. Nina Auerbach argues [...]

Witness to the League of Blond Hip-Hop Dancers By Donna Allegra Alyson Publications ISBN 1555835503 Pb $12.95, 248 pp. The author of the most recent addition to black lesbian fiction [...]

Black Girl in Paris Shay Youngblood Riverhead Books Shay Youngblood's new book, Black Girl in Paris, is a wonderfully evocative and lyrically written novel describing a young woman's search for [...]

Inferno (A Poet's Novel) By Eileen Myles New York: OR Books, 2011,256 pp., $16.00, paperback Eileen Myles builds her new book around three experiences: Hell, which for Myles's protagonist means [...]

Cassandra at the Wedding By Dorothy Baker New York Review of Books ISBN 1-59017-112-8 PB, $12.95, 241 pp. Cassandra at the Wedding, a classic lesbian novel, first published in 1962, [...]

Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 By Martha Vicinus University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-85563-5 HB, $35.00, 314 pp. Martha Vicinus' new book, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, [...]

Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties by Gay Wachman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, 236 pp., $24.00 paper. The 'sapphic modernism' of such writers as Virginia Woolf, [...]

I've been relying a lot on my friends lately, so I looked forward to reading these books, hoping to find affirmed my pleasure and comfort in friendship. Like many lesbians, [...]

I've been relying a lot on my friends lately, so I looked forward to reading these books, hoping to find affirmed my pleasure and comfort in friendship. Like many lesbians, [...]

These two books join a recent outpouring of fiction, memoir and ethnography that document the complexities of lesbian childhoods and lesbian experiences of gender. The mid-century butches and femmes of [...]

These two books join a recent outpouring of fiction, memoir and ethnography that document the complexities of lesbian childhoods and lesbian experiences of gender. The mid-century butches and femmes of [...]