The Invisible Dog and Books Are Magic are thrilled to welcome Lux Magazine and Picador for an evening celebrating the works of the late radical feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, with a reissue of three of Dworkin's best-known works: Woman Hating, Pornography, & Right-Wing Women.
Andrea Dworkin was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span thirty years. They are found in a dozen solo works: nine books of nonfiction, two novels, and a collection of short stories.
Johanna Fateman is a writer, musician, and co-chief art critic for CULTURED magazine. In the past, she has written regularly for the New Yorker, 4Columns, and Artforum, where she was a contributing editor. In 2023 her band, Le Tigre, performed for the first time since 2005; her tour diary will be published next year in Cookie Jar, a pamphlet series of the Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. She co-edited, with Amy Scholder, the 2019 semiotext(e) anthology Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin.
John Stoltenberg is a long-time activist against sexual violence and a radical feminist philosopher of gender. He and Andrea Dworkin were life partners for thirty-one years. John’s books written during their time together include Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice, a radical examination of male sexual identity; The End of Manhood: Parables on Sex and Selfhood, a practical guide to life as a man of conscience; and a novel, Gonerz, which projects a radical feminist vision into a post-apocalyptic future. Among John’s many articles and essays are “Living With Andrea Dworkin,” “Imagining Life Without Andrea,” and “Andrea Dworkin Was a Trans Ally.” John lives in Washington, DC, and is executive editor of DC Theater Arts, where he regularly publishes theater reviews and columns.
Sarah Leonard is editor-in-chief of Lux magazine.
Lux is a feminist magazine of politics and culture founded in 2021. We publish award-winning and emerging writers and artists in a glossy print edition three times a year, delivering their work to readers in over a dozen countries.
Picador will reissue Andrea Dworkin’s Right-Wing Women, Pornography, and Woman Hating on February 25, 2025. All have been out of print for decades.