Curated and published by the private Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in Brazil in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is a tribute to and compilation of the works of Gran Fury, the artistic collective that was formed in the 1980s adjacent to the activist group ACT UP.
More
Unlocking the Red Closet is, like other books on this subject, a mix of sociological analysis and transcripts of the subjects’ interviews. There is mercifully little jargon, and the monologs are highly theatrical. And they are what make the book.
More
Brief Reviews of the books It’s Not the End of the World, Bangkok after Dark: Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies, A Most Infamous Young Swindler: The Short Tragic Life of Thomas Langrel Harris, Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color, Twist, and television series ,Monster: The Ed Gein Story,
More
Wilke is quick to point out that in 19th-century America there was no sense of a “gay identity.” None of the men and women he writes about would have recognized the labels that would come later.
More
In The Long Beach Gay Trials, author Gerrie Schipske presents a narrative peppered with newspaper clippings, court records, archival material, and photographs.
More
BRYAN WASHINGTON’S latest novel, Palaver, is a quietly powerful story about the complexities of relating to family and friends.
More
LANA LIN both critiques and expands the range of Gertrude Stein with The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam. Taking as a model Stein’s 1933 classic The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which blurred the line between portrait and self-portrait, Lin narrates her story from the perspective of partner H. Lan Thao Lam.
More
NOTHING CONVEYS the brutality and loss of war more than a child’s perspective. Sam Wachman’s The Sunflower Boys captures the enduring nature of love and forgiveness in the face of abysmal grief, along with the confusion and fear of war. The book is a present-day novel of coming-of-age for two Ukrainian boys in love who survive trauma and never give up searching for each other.
More
Objects of Desire is a meditation on the conflict between love and fame and the extraordinary lengths to which we will go in pursuit of them.
More
THIS IS THE BOOK on biology that you wish you could have read in high school. In the introduction to Sex Is a Spectrum, author Agustín Fuentes invites the reader to imagine being a fish called the bluehead wrasse, living off the coast of Florida.
More