Asterisks

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Asterisks collects thirteen essays that explore literature, cinema, history, and queerness, while persistently returning to the question of how to write, create, and live in a world roiled by fascism and suffering. Beginning with memories of growing up with a father who was a gun dealer and participating in AIDS activism in the 1990s, Matthew[…]

The Gentrified City of God: Queer & Medieval New York from 9/11 to COVID-19

FORTHCOMING Summer 2025

The United States is a spiritual wasteland—a two-party dictatorship that worships money and that eats human beings alive, where racial and gender oppression attack the body, and where partisan polarization stifles the mind. In this dreary context, A.W. Strouse pursues a life of sin and salvation. As a queer scholar of the Middle Ages and[…]

Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick as Book Artist

Published: 03/03/2022

Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick as Book Artist represents the first booklength study to explore the intersections of Sedgwick’s critical writing, poetry, and most importantly, book art, making the case that her art criticism, especially her meditations on domestic and nineteenth-century photography, and “artist’s book” projects are as formally complex and brilliant, conceptually significant[…]