Publics and Counterpublics Orphans At the true heart of

At the true heart of The Lie is a universal story about turning self-doubt into self-acceptance and about pain

Infused with Ross's trademark humor

A painful but ultimately empowering queer history lesson

mercurial Alistair Dodge are second cousins who become lifelong friends when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954

and strategies for resistance and healing

Publics and Counterpublics Orphans At the true heart ofPublics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very different from other or earlier societies. Like the idea of rights, or nations, or markets, it can now seem universal. But it has not always been so. Publics exist only by virtue of their imagining. They are a kind of fiction that has taken on life, and