The contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on the long and influential career of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose pioneering work in queer theory has transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity.

Preface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant  1
Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz  6
Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick  34
1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman  37
2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler  63
3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards  72
4. In / Denis Flannery  92
5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop  113
6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg  121
7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse  132
8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon  141
9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz  152
10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon  166
11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker   178
12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg  189
13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker  203
14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon  236
15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman  242
Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton  274
Acknowledgments  279
Bibliography  281
Contributors  295
Index  299