Both and Neither: A Memoir and History of Gender (Or, A Haunting)

Author of The Fact of a Body, and winner of this year’s Whiting Award, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich considers how we bear witness to trans lives, past and present.

In Both and Neither, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich weaves memoir and history into a singular work shaped by the figures who have long haunted them. Moving across centuries, they trace lives that have made and unmade gender in the public imagination, revealing how the past persists—intimately, insistently—within the present.

Through meticulous r...