A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedente...

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Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical ess...

'If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this.'-John Ashbe...

Jackie Under My Skin is a nuanced description of how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our d...

This interpretation of literary collaboration, first published in 1989, focuses on homosexual des...

'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar...

Wayne Koestenbaum knows how to drop the language in the blender of the imagination and hit frappe...

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical ...

This interpretation of literary collaboration, first published in 1989, focuses on homosexual des...

Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique...

The chromatic, linguistically playful, erotic conclusion to Wayne Koestenbaum's acclaimed trance ...