Author: Juliet Jacques
Publisher: Cipher
Paperback
Staff Pick! So says...
Grouped into sections titled Politics, Media and Arts, Front Lines is a book that - like its author - repeatedly crosses all lines between them, including a brilliant intro that lays out the journalism and publishing landscape, and the economics of writing over the last 15 years. You’ve probably read some of the pieces in here, because over a decade and a half, Jacques has written for an astonishing variety of publications on a dazzling array of subjects. Reading them all together, though, is a total rush: a vivid document of an intense era in which the ‘trans tipping point’ and fascist transphobia are concurrent, and the interweaving thoughts of an original thinker. From football to Detransition, Baby: get you a writer who can do both.