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In Thrall

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In ThrallJane DeLynn

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In Thrall

Jane DeLynn

A dazzling classic of lesbian adolescence.

The Irish Times

Dear Miss Maxfeld . . . What I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s possible there could be so many in one school, do you? Probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at one time and that one person (I am afraid) is me . . .

After sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter they embark on one of the funniest and saddest love affairs in fiction, shrouded in secrecy and guilt. Set in the year Kennedy was shot, all Lynn knows about “lezbos” is that they wear their hair in crew cuts, buy suits like her father’s, and sprout mustaches over their upper lips. Trying to pass, Lynn continues to neck with her boyfriend and make bigoted jokes with her friends. Feigning innocence with her parents, each night she checks the mirror for tell-tale signs of perversion. Profound, witty, poignant, and highly charged, In Thrall is the first in Jane DeLynn’s trilogy of novels on sexuality and authority. It is as believable in its depiction of a closeted teen as it is heartbreaking.

With an introduction by Colm Tóibín.

  • 978-1-7395161-6-1
  • 21.6 x 13.9 cm
  • 280 pp.
  • Paperback
  • 19 November 2024

About the author

Jane DeLynn is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Leash, Don Juan in the Village, and Some Do. Her novel Real Estate was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, the New York Observer and Tikkun, and she lived in Saudi Arabia as a correspondent for Mirabella and Rolling Stone during the Gulf War. She is also the author of three plays, and wrote the libretto for the children’s opera The Monkey Opera, composed by Roger Tréfousse, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She lives in Los Angeles.

Endorsements (4)

Flawless comic timing.

Colm Tóibín

All Lynn’s phobias, aversions and hang-ups make her exaggerated but real . . . The great triumph of this novel is that DeLynn has captured the way adolescents felt, talked, and behaved during the early 1960s.

San Francisco Chronicle

A dazzlingly gritty exposure of a girlhood experience usually neglected by both private and public consciousness.

Reba Maybury

In Thrall is a beguiling account of the perversion, angst and ego of adolescence.

The Irish Times

Press (23)

Teacher's PetRegina MarlerThe New York Review of Books12/02/2026
Jane Delynn & Christopher Zeischegg in ConversationChristopher ZeischeggChristopher Zeischegg14/11/2025
Am I the monster?Natalie AdlerLux Magazine, 1407/2025
Undifferentiated SlimeMalin HayLondon Review of Books, Vol. 47, No. 1207/2025
Sweet Days of DisciplineMelissa AndersonBookforum, Winter 20252102/2025
Thrilling and bewilderingLucy ScholesThe TLS, No. 63582407/02/2025
Interview: Jane DeLynn by Taylor Lewandowski Taylor LewandowskiBOMB30/01/2025
Type on PaperEHFM21/01/2025
‘In Thrall’ is a flinty, funny novel about growing upJessica FerriThe Washington Post12/12/2024
"This feeling of uniqueness is part of the pattern": Jane DeLynn's In ThrallEkaterina IvanovaEra Journal, 19, Winter 20241712/2024
A Witty and Ironic Coming-of-Age Novel From 1982Brandon SanchezNew York Magazine's Making It newsletter (ed. Emily Gould)26/11/2024
Sex Cannot Be Taught, Just LearntEd NeedhamStrong Words, 542311/2024
The Strong Words Hot ListStrong Words24/11/2024
Five Books to Read in November 2024Something Curated22/11/2024
In ThrallJ. F.Los Angeles Times19/11/2024
In Thrall (from 2:05:18)Hannah MacInnes in for Ed VaizeyTimes Radio15/11/2024
Jane DeLynn: In ThrallMorgan BeckerThe Whitney Review, 411/2024
The Sheer Gusto of Jane DeLynnColm TóibínThe Nation11/11/2024
To Do: November 6-20Jasmine VojdaniNew York Magazine06/11/2024
A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed LemursSophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-SperlingThe Paris Review01/11/2024
In ThrallAndrew Chan4Columns01/11/2024

Another Sun

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Another SunFrançoise VergèsMayra A. Rodríguez Castro

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Another Sun

Françoise Vergès Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro

In 2005, Françoise Vergès published a book with Aimé Césaire, in which she recorded – three years before his death – powerful remarks by the poet, as incisive and combative as ever, yet imbued, as always, with the universal humanism to which he had remained committed throughout his life. It is fortunate that, drawing inspiration from this interview, Another Sun allows us to hear, in their intertwining, the voices of Césaire and Vergès herself, conveying a message of emancipation and fraternity/sorority that our world needs to hear today.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne


Waiting at Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, in the city of Le Lamentin, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro browses the airport kiosk. Alongside books by Césaire, it offers titles by Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau. She picks up a copy of Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai, a conversation between Françoise Vergès and Césaire published in 2005, and embarks. In Another Sun, Rodríguez Castro and Vergès revisit that seminal conversation, resulting in an eclectic text shaped by ongoing struggles.

With poems by Danielle Legros Georges, Wole Soyinka, Ishion Hutchinson, Clarisse Baleja Saïdi, Aimé Césaire and Jean Érian Samson.

  • 978-1-0684395-2-0
  • 21.6 x 13.9 cm
  • 100 pp.
  • Paperback
  • 04 June 2026

About the authors (2)

Françoise Vergès is a writer, decolonial anti-racist feminist and curator. She is currently working on the fabrication of premature death, imperialism and anti-imperialism, the colonial roots of fascism, private property and racism. In parallel, she is working on a film about communist anti-colonial struggles on Réunion and in the Southwest Indian Ocean based on her parents’ personal archives and her own. Her recent publications include: Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism (2024); A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024); A Decolonial Feminism (2021); The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (2020); and Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès, with Aimé Césaire (2019). She has written documentary fifilms on Maryse Condé and Aimé Césaire (both 2013) and was a project advisor for Documenta11 (2002) and La Triennale de Paris (2012). Vergès is currently senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London.

Photo: Bachir Tayachi

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer and editor. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin in 2018, recipient of a fellowship with Anne Waldman at Naropa University in 2019, and a textual residency fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2025. Her essay ‘El nuevo sublime’ was a finalist for the National Essay and Criticism Award in Colombia in 2019. Rodríguez Castro is the editor of Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews, 1984–1992 (2020), a collection of previously unpublished lectures by Audre Lorde, which was shortlisted for the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. She is also the author of The Echo (2025) and Blood (2026).

Photo: Diego Mayorga