Adults

Silence and speech in post-war France

A melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document

Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body

What does it mean if a poem is “neither pro nor con abortion”?

A hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage

Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?

Are these pieces translations, inventions, or interventions that add to a story that has been lost to us?

A queer childhood and the demand to “sound straight.”

When polite prejudice makes for scathing satire.

A letter, a list, a sonnet, and the state of a nation.