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“The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report” by Rosa Campbell
Beacon Press, May 2026, 242 pp.
“The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America’s Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces” by Rachel Karp
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2026, 192 pp.
“Life of M: A Novel” by Rachel Cusk
Viking, April 2026, 448 pp.
“Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay” by Mary Lisa Gavenas
Feminist Press, April 2026, 312 pp.
“No! The Art and Activism of Complaining” by Sara Ahmed
37 Ink/Simon & Schuster, June 2026, 287 pp.
“Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me” by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026, 240 pp.
“My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction” by Deborah Levy
Reina Sugihara, Two, 2024, oil on board. Courtesy of the artist, MISAKO & ROSEN gallery and Arcadia Missa gallery; photo by Kei Okano.
Reina Sugihara at the Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027
Poster for The Body of Mary by Katie Cappiello
“The Body of Mary: A Play in Three Acts (of God)” written and directed by Katie Cappiello
“Trauma Plot: A Life,” by Jamie Hood
Talking Solidarity with Sarah Schulman 
“Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968–1980)” by Eleanor Johnson
“Little F” by Michelle Tea
“DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? A Trans and/or Feminist Manifesto,” by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and “What Is Wrong with Men…” by Jessa Crispin
Mercedes Matter at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY, September 5–October 4, 2025
“Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us,” a two-part retrospective of thirty films
“Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation” By Sophie Lewis
A Consideration of “Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel” by Loretta Ross
“Spent: A Comic Novel” By Alison Bechdel
“The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir” by Edmund White
“Sad Tiger” by Neige Sinno, translated by Natasha Lehrer
“Consent” by Vanessa Springora, translated by Natasha Lehrer
“You Won’t Get Free of It” by Rachel Aviv
“Alice Munro’s Retreat” by Anne Enright
“My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with him” by Andrea Robin Skinner
“Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair” by Alexandra Seros
“Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe” by Heide Goettner-Abendroth
“The Mourner’s Bestiary” by Eiren Caffall
“Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus” by Elaine Pagels
“Liars: A Novel” by Sarah Manguso
‘Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs’ By Judith Barrington
“Antiboy” by Valentijn Hoogenkamp, translated by Michele Hutchison
“The Mighty Red: A Novel” by Louise Erdrich
“Dear Dickhead” by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne
“New Mistakes” by Clement Goldberg
“Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers” by Jean Strouse
“Us Fools” by Nora Lange & “Cruddy” by Lynda Barry
“Edges of Ailey” edited by Adrienne Edwards
“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” By Michael Waters
‘1974: A Personal History’ By Francine Prose
‘The Sexist Microphysics of Power: The Alcàsser Case and the Construction of Sexual Terror’ By Nerea Barjola, translated by Emily Mack
‘Sally and Tom’ By Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III
‘On Strike Against God’ By Joanna Russ, edited by Alec Pollak
‘Sandwich: A Novel’ By Catherine Newman
‘That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America’ By Amanda Jones
‘SLUTS: Anthology’ Edited by Michelle Tea
‘A Termination’ By Honor Moore
‘Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop’ By Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan
‘You’ll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other than Love’ By Marcia A. Zug & ‘Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story’ By Leslie Jamison
‘Art Monsters’ By Lauren Elkin & ‘Dana Schutz: Jupiter’s Lottery’ at David Zwirner
‘to light, and then return—: Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann’ at Gagosian, September 14–October 28, 2023
‘The Shining’ By Dorothea Lasky
‘The Loneliness Files’ By Athena Dixon
‘Martha Graham, A Life: When Dance Became Modern’ By Neil Baldwin & ‘Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham’ By Deborah Jowitt
‘It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror’ Edited by Joe Vallese
‘The Rabbit Hutch’ By Tess Gunty
‘Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir’ by Margo Jefferson
‘Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex’ By Sophia Giovannitti
‘The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century’ by Amia Srinivasan
‘A Year on Earth with Mr. Hell’ by Young Kim
‘Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941–1995’; edited by Anna von Planta
‘Hit Parade of Tears: Stories’ By Izumi Suzuki
‘Bad Girls’ by Camila Sosa Villada, translated by Kit Maude
‘On Women’ by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff
‘Nightcrawling’ by Leila Mottley
‘House of Cotton’ by Monica Brashears
‘Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation’ by Nuar Alsadir
‘The Trayvon Generation’ by Elizabeth Alexander
‘The Swimmers’ by Julie Otsuka
‘Our Share of Night’ by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell
‘Eating While Black: Shaming and Race in America’ by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
‘Either/Or’ by Elif Batuman
‘Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance’ by Moya Bailey
‘The Road to the City’ By Natalia Ginzburg, Translated by Gini Alhadeff
‘Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It’ by Kaitlyn Tiffany
‘You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar’ by Pyae Moe Thet War
‘Manywhere: Stories’ by Morgan Thomas
‘Sirens & Muses’ by Antonia Angress and ‘My Last Innocent Year’ by Daisy Alpert Florin
‘Life Ceremony: Stories’ by Sayaka Murata
‘Time Is a Mother’ by Ocean Vuong
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis’ by Grace Lavery
“Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared’, & ‘This Is Not All There Is’
‘Hurricane Girl’ by Marcy Dermansky
Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity’ by Paisley Currah and ‘Sexed Up’ by Julia Serano
‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’ by Big Thief
‘Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs’ By Josh Hawley
‘Toad: A Novel by Katherine Dunn’
Four ‘Abortion Novels’ for Dark Times
‘Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist’ by Frans de Waal
‘La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern’ by Lynn Garafola
‘This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music’ edited by’ Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon
‘I Must Be Dreaming’ by Roz Chast
‘Sterling Karat Gold’ by Isabel Waidner
‘Ordinary Wonder Tales:’ Essays by Emily Urquhart
‘Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist’ by Cecilia Gentili
‘Nevada’ by Imogen Binnie
‘Woman: The American History of an Idea’ by Lillian Faderman
‘Erotica’ By Michael Dango
‘The Means: A Novel’ by Amy Fusselman
‘Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan’ by Darryl Pinckney
‘Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands’ by Kate Beaton
‘Death by Landscape: Essays’ by Elvia Wilk
‘All the Lovers in the Night’ by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
‘Girl, Interrupted (30th Anniversary Edition)’ By Susanna Kaysen
‘HERmione’ by H.D.
‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation’ by Sophie Lewis
‘Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women’ by Kristen Ghodsee
‘Suffs’ by Shaina Taub and ‘for colored girls’ by Ntozake Shange
‘Post-traumatic’ by Chantal V. Johnson
‘Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System’ By Gwenola Ricordeau
‘Couplets: A Love Story’ by Maggie Millner
‘Pathetic Literature’ edited by Eileen Myles
‘The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880–1917’ by Meredith Tax
‘The Vaster Wilds’ By Lauren Groff
‘Miss Major Speaks’ by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek, and ‘Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation’, by Qween Jean, Joela Rivera, Mikelle Street, & Raquel Willis
‘Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and’Beyond’ by Joyce Chopra
‘Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising’ by Brandi Morin
‘Ordinary Notes’ By Christina Sharpe
Civil Rights Queen
‘Constance Baker Motley’ by Tomiko Brown-Nagin;
‘Shirley Chisholm’ by Anastasia C. Curwood;
‘Patsy Takemoto Mink’ by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
‘Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination’,(Revised Edition) by Robin D.G. Kelley, Foreword by Aja Monet
‘Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us’ by Rachel Aviv
‘Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words’ By Jenni Nuttall
‘Animal Life’ by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, translated by Brian Fitzgibbon
‘She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C.’ at The Morgan Library and Museum
‘Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues’ by Kavita Das
‘We All Want Impossible Things: A Novel’ By Catherine Newman
‘The Easy Life’ by Marguerite Duras, translated by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes
‘Louise Bourgeois: Paintings’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022
‘How to Say Goodbye’ by Wendy MacNaughton
‘Our Missing Hearts’ by Celeste Ng
‘Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory’ by Janet Malcolm

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