Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Katherine Angel, a London journalist and postdoctoral research fellow, offers an arresting mix of diaristic experiences with her lover—à la Anaïs Nin—and heady reflections from feminist thinkers like Susan Sontag and Virginia Woolf. A genre-busting nonfiction account that reads like poetry, revels in ambiguity, and intentionally defies definition, the book explores the slippery emotions of sex in fiery, collage-like scenes intended to reconcile the contradictory "metaphors we love by."
— Kristy Davis
