En Pointe, Off-Kilter presents a powerful new collection of essays from Thomas Glave, seamlessly blending the geopolitical with deeply felt personal reflections on his own experiences of grief and loss. Expanding on his previous work, Glave delivers striking meditations on race, British colonialism, Jamaican queer history, and trans-Atlantic slavery, alongside urgent explorations of the Covid-19 pandemic, torture, and sexual assault. Written in highly evocative, lyrical prose, this collection offers a necessary, multi-layered journey through human rights, social justice, the African diaspora, and the role of the writer-activist.



Thomas Glave is the author of two short fiction collections, two previous essay collections, and editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. A two-time Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of numerous awards, he has held visiting professorships at MIT and the University of Warwick, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is an honorary visiting professor at the University of Liverpool and an associate editor of Wasafiri.