I write works of fiction and cultural theory. Sometimes I like to confuse people about which is which.  

Samba: Resistance in Motion *This was my first book, and it won the De la Torre Bueno Prize for the best book on dance in 1996.

Infectious Rhythm *This one is about African diasporic configurations of epidemia. It came out in 1998.

Who Is Mr. Waxman? *This is a free download of an audio novel - it was the first novel I wrote.

The Correspondence Artist *This one won a Lambda Literary Award in 2012.
I'm Trying to Reach You *This one was short-listed for The Believer Book Award in 2013.

The Gift (or, Techniques of the Body) *This one came out in 2017. The New York Times said, ""[The Gift] is a smart, funny, heartbreaking and often sexy delight of a novel that presses hard against the boundaries of where literary and artistic performances begin and end." The New Yorker also liked it. It won a Lambda Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Clark Fiction Prize.

Caetano Veloso: A Foreign Sound *This one is in the 33 1/3 series from Bloomsbury. Also 2017.

​Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog? *This one was co-authored with Sebastien Regnier and came out in 2018. "It’s like being seated between the best dinner guests at a party of strangers." Seriously. 

The Terrarium *I also wrote this with Sebastien Regnier. It's about eros and thanatos. Or frogs. It came out in 2022.

The Miniaturists *This is a collection of personal essays about tiny things and the people who love them. For example, William Morton Wheeler.