Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.

Almost every category in this 2022 best of list was very competitive.

“Had my teen girl self been sure of herself and comfortably queer as I am today, she may not have become so obsessed with advice columns in the first place.”

This fall we’ve got terrifying queer horror, swoony lesbian romance, cute sapphic YA, intriguing lit fic, monstrous women in fantasy and sci fi, new feminist history books, and much more!

We Too maps out the underground ecosystems of sex worker survival and self-determination that are literally the building blocks of a new world order.

“The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend: Advice on Queer Dating, Love, and Friendship” is helpful, funny, aesthetically pleasing, and very very queer. In short? This book is a goddamn delight!

“I just want people to know that at the core of every book I write, I want to center black girls in their wholeness and show that you can be flawed. You can be scared. You can be beautiful.”

No one’s life is split into two simple chapters. Santos lets all her former eras live right next to each other in the mirror.

Secrets, silence, internalized misogyny, power, desire, and the catastrophic — yet very common — ways in which girls are harmed as they grow into women are all themes that Febos examines in “Girlhood,” an essay collection that blends memoir, journalism, and cultural critique.

Leah Johnson’s new novel “Rise to the Sun” follows two Black queer girls falling in love at a music festival — here’s an exclusive excerpt!

When queer voices — especially those of trans people, and Black and brown people — are so frequently ignored or actively silenced, centering a narrator made up of them turned out to be an active effort.

Welcome to 2023, which promises to be yet another spectacular year for feminist and queer books. This winter is only the beginning!

In this creative nonfiction+artist interview chimera, Almah LaVon Rice reviews the poetry collection Time Regime and wanders its estuaries with author Jhani Randhawa.

I’m sharing part of a scene from the book that captures the essence of why I love to write fiction: so I can write the fantasy dates with girls I adore, whether or not they happened quite that way.

Topics include Zola, the rise in Black homeschooling, the return of FOMO, online stalking, “Friends,” why meetings, Generation X, racism in The Bachelor, Mare of Easttown and more!

We finished reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. At its core, the book is about embracing truth and change, which is especially true now — when our world seems much closer to Butler’s science fiction. We’d love for you to talk to us about it!

“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”

“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement. Alison Bechdel shares her process of writing this latest book over the last ten years, collaborating with her partner, and the “huge blossoming of lesbian culture.”

“The goal, especially in 2020, has not been to feel better or feel my best, but it’s to feel less shitty than I did five minutes ago.” Marlee Grace’s Getting to Center is the tender, lesbian self-help book to start this year off right. We interview her about the book, internet addiction, higher powers, and the moon’s creative potential.

The first time I encountered a book with queer characters must have been James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. At the time I remember feeling afraid of its intensity. Now it’s one of my most returned-to books along with Lydia Davis’ The End of the Story.