Michael Goldberg: 37 books

Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and...

Archie Marries Veronica, Part 2: The Wedding' Prepare to be shell-shocked, because not only did Archie propose, but in this issue wedding bells are ringing! It's Archie's future, a future where Riverdale's favorite rich girl wins his hand in marriage! With Mr. Lodge footing the bill, it's proving...

Life has taken some amazing turns for Archie and his friends lately. What path will Archie follow next? One thing is certain - should he choose to venture back down memory lane, anything can happen!

Archie Marries Veronica,' Part 3: 'It's Twins!' Now that you've witnessed the engagement and wedding of Archie and Veronica, prepare for the most major event yet: Archie and Veronica are having a baby! Strike that, they're having babies - Twins! You haven't had a taste of parenthood until it's done...

A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel...

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...

In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part...

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...

Archie Marries Veronica Part 1: The Proposal' It's the milestone 600th issue and we're serving up the Archie story of the century as Archie marries Veronica! Could it be true? Has Archie finally decided to take the plunge and propose to comics' favorite rich girl? Make way for this special story that...

The aftermath of the Archie story of the century continues! What could possibly happen next? The answers may astound you!

Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people—overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame...

In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence...

There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes...

Archie Gets Married: The Epilogue.' Don't miss the introspective epilogue to the Archie story of the century! The amazing events of the last 6 issues have left Archie in a daze, and he doesn't know how to explain it to his friends - especially Betty and Veronica! Can he readjust to the way things...