For more than thirty years Jonathan Dollimore has been one of contemporary culture's most influential critics of politics, literature, and sexuality. Part autobiography, part meditation, Desire: A Memoir reveals the existential sources of his inspiration. At once extreme and exemplary, it fearlessly explores the challenge of passion, of gay sex and suicidal depression. Desire: a Memoir is a raw, provocative and often moving account of the life within, beneath, and beyond critical commitment.