BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Transanything engages and upends and a long-standing tradition of American literature—writing about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West—though a lens of queer liberation.

The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève is a sweeping and multifaceted portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and intriguing figures.

Excavation: A Memoir is the daring and vulnerable story of Wendy C. Ortiz’s simultaneously predatorial and impassioned relationship with her eighth-grade English teacher. A tale of survival, memory, agency, and power, this is a book that demands to be read.

Hollywood Notebook—the daytime companion to its sister memoir, Bruja—documents Wendy C. Ortiz’s transformational wanderings around early-aughts Los Angeles and the extraordinary explorations of a roaming mind in the bright hours of day.

Christina Rivera braids lyrical prose with research into endangered marine life. She explores the kinship of bodies of water and beings, ranging from her own experiences of motherhood to mantas, turtles, and whales.

Traveling Freely, the debut essay collection from poet Roberto Carlos Garcia, explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, and socioeconomic inequality from a uniquely Black Dominican American view.

A collection of narrative essays explores the search for belonging as a queer person and woman in the American South—and beyond.

A lyric coming-of-age journey that sweeps from Detroit to Los Angeles, Find Me When You’re Ready interrogates the myths we carry and explores how we can set them aside.

A candid and cathartic exploration of pandemic life, from family to pop culture to healthcare—and beyond