Giovanni’s Reach
The gay community is quite right to claim Baldwin with pride, as we’d be hard-pressed to find a better symbol for our own stubborn unwillingness to be forgotten.
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Prince Hal & Bloody Marys
ALLEN BRATTON is an American writer whose first novel, Henry Henry, transfers Shakespeare’s “Prince Hal” (Henry V, 1386–1422) to the year 2014, when old Catholic families and a hereditary upper class still exist in England, but theology and rank seem increasingly irrelevant to the issues of the day.
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Reflections of a Generalist
The Gay Imagination is a collection of pieces about poetry and music, areas in which the author proves to be a sharp and knowledgeable writer. [Contreras] applies a keen intelligence and a cultivated taste that reveal an impressive familiarity with a wide range of poetry.
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Exchanging Families
Mama provides an unflinching look at the difficult circumstance of a Black family in struggle and of a young woman’s efforts to care for her half-brother in the midst of it all.
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Death & Transfiguration
In her two new books, simultaneously published, Joy Ladin continues to engage us in both the depth of her experience and its expansiveness, offering us a reflecting mirror to our own queer selves in this intensely challenging time.
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Who Owns This Body?
NOVELISTIC AND EPISODIC, Oliver Radclyffe’s memoir Frighten the Horses is written with verve, humor, and specificity. His story begins in an affluent British family, where Oliver was raised to take his state of privilege for granted. Later in life, however, he would have to contend with the social challenges of a different kind of status: his transmasculine identity.
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What Goes Up
Funny, ultimately moving, smartly written, and insightful, In Tongues speaks a message well worth listening to, in the voice of a fine novelist.
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Eve of Destruction
The Lilac People is a moving, carefully crafted novel with memorable characters trapped in the most inhumane circumstances.
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She’s Got the Look
Unsuitable is likely to surprise and enlighten even readers with an extensive knowledge of the history of women-loving women. It would make a great basis for a documentary film.
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Lady Day of the Night
Alexander’s book is the first full-length biography of Billie Holiday since Donald Clarke’s Wishing on the Moon (1994). Holiday herself wanted to title her autobiography “Bitter Crop,” the last two words of her signature song, the still shocking “Strange Fruit.” Focusing on the last year of her life as a unifying thread, Bitter Crop shifts backward and forward in time, moving briskly through the singer’s life.
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