Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror Survival and Love
Zefyr Lisowski
Poet Lisowski (Girl Work) reflects in these moving personal essays on gender, class, and the pain and redemption found in horror films Confined to a psychiatric ward in her late Continue reading »
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
Jason Burke
This sweeping account from journalist Burke (The New Threat) charts the emergence of “a new kind of transnational terrorism” in the late 1960s, when loose networks of radicals, Continue reading »
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
Howard Bryant
Sports journalist Bryant (Rickey) charts in this powerful history the intersecting paths of baseball star Jackie Robinson and singer and actor Paul Robeson against the backdrop Continue reading »
The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love
Harry Tanner
In this impressive debut study, historian Tanner contends that homophobia arises in the wake of political instability and economic uncertainty. He shows how, as classical Greek Continue reading »