Showing results for "LGBTQ Politics" in Literature & Fiction

Embodiment is not an easy business. From violence to illness, sexuality to racism, the fact of a body can be impossibly hard to inhabit. Olivia Laing draws on her own background in protest and alternative medicine to investigate the reasons why. Laing’s exploration of the complexities of bodily life takes in some of the most significant and beguiling figures of the past century, among them the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, the painters Francis Bacon and Agnes Martin and the singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone.

Ist es besser, von einer traurigen Liebe zerrissen zu werden, als überhaupt nicht zu lieben? Carolina ist achtundzwanzig Jahre alt und auf der Suche nach sich selbst, als sie Brida begegnet, einer Heilerin, die vor den Trümmern ihrer zweiten Ehe steht. Zwanzig Jahre trennen die beiden Frauen. Doch während Carolina vom ersten Augenblick an erkennt, welche Liebe sie verbindet, hat Brida nicht nur Angst, sich auf die Beziehung einzulassen, auch ihr Mann verhindert einen Neuanfang. Ohne Hoffnung bricht Carolina alleine nach Schottland auf, um ihren Weg als Schriftstellerin zu gehen.

'A soaring coming-of-age novel.' - THE OBSERVER 'Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny. When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose.' - Bonnie Garmus, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY In a world where girls and women are...

FBI agent Alexis Toles is dispatched to New Rochelle, New York, to investigate threatening letters sent to Congressman Christopher O’Brien and to protect his ex-wife, Cassidy, and six-year-old son, Dylan. But when she gets to New Rochelle, Alex discovers that there is more to the situation than simple stalking or political agendas; she finds that she has growing romantic feelings for Cassidy - and that the feelings are mutual.

Read by the author, Kae Tempest. Including an audio-exclusive Q&A, in which Kae explores ideas of poetry, music and form. I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper. I want to take you back where you began, Find the scraps of you you hid in secret And bring them back to life beneath my tongue...