A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flo...

In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and a...

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an ...

'Guiding us through a 'women's culture' animated by scenes of longing for a fantasmatic commonali...

In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and a...

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an ...

In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagem...

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading t...

In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize...

Considers the development of sentimental 'women's culture' in the U.S.--from Uncle Tom's Cabin to...

Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands ...

The contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on the long and influential career of Eve Kosofsky S...