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The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990s—has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithms, or recipes for the physical representation of our personal sexual essences or fates.

Pushing through his troubled childhood, Dillon Farrow was still a teenager when he said goodbye to Miramar and did himself proud, thriving as a successful investment counselor. But a betrayal by a trusted advisor has brought everything crashing down. Dillon’s only recourse is to return to Miramar, penniless and feeling defeated—even more so when a winter flood renders all roads to town impassable. Now he and his fellow stranded travelers are destined to spend Christmas at the only available accommodations—the local jail.

Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most bitterly contested issues in the United States today. We answer these questions, and many more, by presenting them to nine lawyers—the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. No other nation commits so many important questions to its highest court. Stuart Banner’s The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present.