Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

By Hilton Als, David Margolick

White Girls

By Hilton Als

"This book will change you." --Chicago TribuneWhite Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philoso...

T.J. Wilcox

By Hilton Als, Johanna Burton, T.J. Wilcox

The Group

By Hilton Als

A brilliant discussion of James Baldwin & two intellectual worlds, black & Jewish.

The women

By Hilton Als

Daring, fiercely original, and brilliant, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a ser...

WOMEN

By Hilton Als

Justin Bond Jackie Curtis

By Hilton Als

The essay begins as a love letter to Everyqueer, but it ends with a remembrance of just one: the poet, playwright, performer, and Warhol Factory-ite Jackie Curtis. Following the essay is a collecti...

Drawing Us In

By Hilton Als

With Contributions by Dorothy Allison, John Berger, Mark Doty, Mary Gordon, bell hooks, Alfred Kazin, August Wilson, and othersFor the contributors to Drawing Us In, visual art makes us see what we...

Robert Gober The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

By Hilton Als

"Published in conjunction with the first large-scale survey exhibition of Robert Gober's art in the United States and prepared in close collaboration with him, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Meta...

Without Sanctuary

By Hilton Als, Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack

The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the N...