An unexpected, fascinating journey into the scientific and cultural history of the female behind. Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, and part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, informative, and thoughtful examination of how and why certain kinds of figures come in and out of fashion, and how larger forces, like equality, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about our own bodies, contributing to how we see ourselves and one another.

Radke is a writer and radio producer whose work has appeared in The Believer, RadioLab, The Paris Review, and LitHub. Her work on this book has already garnered some attention from Vox's new science podcast Unexplainable and WNYC, and she is well-connected to an influential set of cultural writers who will offer support at publication, including Lulu Miller, Leslie Jamison, Margo Jefferson, and Hilton Als.