White Girls

A rhapsodic and provocative collection of essays on race, class, sexuality and identity in America

Financial Times

The first time you read Hilton Als, it's a revelation ... you wonder where this guy has been all your life ... He is both a startlingly insightful intellectual and a friendly, open and generous-spirited companion. It is the authenticity of his voice which makes him so compelling. That and the sheer dazzling brilliance of his writing, visceral and poetic, big-hearted, hot-headed and fierce'

Big Issue

Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin

Observer

A stunning analysis of contemporary culture ... undoubtedly one of the most important books of our times

DAZED

Pioneering ... a mosaic of thoughts and observations, taking in the landscape of a New York ravaged by AIDS and his private grief for his lost lover, imagining silent film star Louise Brookes' drawling inner life, and examining his own complicated relationship with his sexuality and blackness

AnOther Magazine

Enlightening... a book you should read now

VICE

Effortless, fearless and honest

New York Times

Magnificent

Los Angeles Times

Stunning

Kirkus Reviews

Exhilarating ... Audacious

San Francisco Chronicle

Brilliant

Boston Globe

This will be debated for years

Entertainment Weekly

I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Mesmerising

Los Angeles Review of Books

The variations he plays on the themes of identity, intimacy and race achieve a fugue-like complexity and power

Washington Post

This book will change you

Chicago Tribune

Beautiful and deeply intelligent

New Statesman

An intersectional masterpiece of race and sexuality, fact and fiction, memoir and polemic. The book that allowed a generation to make radicalism full of beauty and emotion

I-D Magazine