In the playwright Sarah Ruhl’s new book, “Lessons from My Teachers,” she writes of a period in her life when she—by then a celebrated dramatist, a parent, and a professor at Yale—“was ...

Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.

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