Culture

Holden Caulfield's furious protection of authentic identity against a world he experiences as phoniness.

James Baldwin on the cost of suppressing identity - a man who cannot be who he is, and what that denial destroys.

Toni Morrison's novel about reclaiming identity after it was stolen. The self as something you can lose and, at great cost, recover.

Maggie Nelson on queerness, pregnancy, identity, and language - the Ship of Theseus question applied to a self. The book that changed while being written and continued changing after. Identity as the thing that transforms while remaining recognizably itself.