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Now showing — Reading from Giovanni's Room and Another Country · 5 works

  • Dancer from the Dance Books · 1970s

    One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hour...

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  • Written on the Body Books · 1990s

    The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

    LongingMemoryMigration
  • Disgrace Books · 1990s

    A professor's fall from grace in post-apartheid South Africa. Power, shame, and transformation.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • A Sudanese man returns from England. Colonialism reversed as seduction and destruction.

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