Reading from Behind

Reviews / Votes

Looks at the subject of the 'booty' with remarkable enthusiasm. * Attitude * Jonathan Allan has come up with a whole theory of the arsehole. * Dazed and Confused * Readers outside the academy will be rewarded with a fine example of textual analysis-and, possibly, a new appreciation of the anus as the most democratic and empowering of our body parts. * Literary Review of Canada * A serious work of theory, exploring the backside as a site of humiliation and disgust. * The Guardian * Allan's work is, in a sense, groundbreaking ... opening up a whole new field of study ... Allan's book should be required reading. * The Independent * Assholes are like opinions: Everyone has them - but no one has more opinions on assholes than Jonathan Allan. * VICE * A remarkably fresh and original contribution to contemporary queer studies. I am confident that, with Reading from Behind, Allan will emerge as a widely respected critical voice of his generation. * David William Foster, author of Sexual Textualties: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing * Entertaining and informative. * Merrill Cole, author of The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality * Allan reorients studies of anality. * Todd Reeser, author of Masculinities in Theory *