Great books often begin with great questions. My wonderful colleague, Libby Adler, started with this one: “How might a socialist jurisdiction “do” lgbtq legal advancement differently from a jurisdiction, such as the US, where legal advocates have relied heavily on liberal rights to achieve formal equality but have done far less to economically destratify the lgbtq population?” The result was her fascinating, just-released, Cambridge University Press monograph Governing the Terrain Called Beauty: The Queerness of Political Economy in Cuba and the United States. It’s hard to separate any book centered on Cuba from what is happening there now. But students of the Cuban approach to governance and/or the struggle for equality for members of the LGBTQ community won’t want to miss this probing volume.