Seven Wonders of Our World
THE ORIGIN STORY for Diarmuid Hester’s Nothing Ever Just Disappears begins in Cambridge, England, when the author had a realization that the queer history of that place was disappearing.
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The Downside of Upward Mobility
CHANGE by Édouard Louis Translated by John Lambert Farrar, Straus & Giroux 256 pages, $27. EDOUARD LOUIS’ memoir Changer: Méthode, published in France in 2021, has recently been translated…More
Daring to Speak Its Name
CAMEROONIAN WRITER Musih Tedji Xaviere’s debut novel, These Letters End in Tears, focuses on the illicit love affair between two women who are willing to risk their lives to be together.
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5,123 Performances
Seasons of Love traces the influence of Rent on theatrical productions with LGBT elements since 1996 and on composers such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, who directed Tick, Tick… Boom!, a film about Larson’s efforts to create a musical earlier in his career.
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An Oral History
Conversations with Sarah Schulman offers a wide range of opinions and biographical details. The writer discloses important biographical material about the current state of her health and about the influence of such literary legends as Audre Lorde and Grace Paley.
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Nigerian Love Affair
BOOKSTORES AND LIBRARIES are full of coming-of-age books by gay men, but Blessings isn’t your usual novel in that genre—an aspect that’s both appealing and aggravating.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of the books Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film<,em>, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide, Imperative to Spare, One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field, and XXX, and the exhibit George Platt Lynes at Work: The Gary Haller Collection
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A Quarterly of One’s Own
DECADENT WOMEN Yellow Book Lives by Jad Adams Reaktion Books. 388 ages, $30. SET IN THE OFFICES of a Victorian magazine that he edited, many of Anthony Trollope’s later…More
An Exhibit to Revisit
A new catalogue for About Face published by Monacelli Press includes elucidating essays and texts by Julian Carter, Anthony Cianciolo, Amelia Jones, Ava L. J. Kim, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Christopher Reed, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Dagmawi Woubshet. This lushly designed book with 300 illustrations is proof of concept for Katz’ curatorial vision.
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Of Bars and Bookstores
FOR LESBIANS of a certain age, reading June Thomas’ A Place of Our Own may bring on a wave of nostalgia, especially the parts about the 1970s and ’80s. Thomas has written a breezy yet substantial history of six types of spaces that have been important to our culture: lesbian bars, feminist bookstores, the softball diamond, lesbian land, feminist sex-toy stores, and vacation destinations. Each sort of space has its own unique vibe, but they all share a history of lesbians trying, and often failing, to make it in a heteronormative capitalistic society while prioritizing lesbian feminist ideals. The efforts were often heroic and the results transformative in the lives of the women who spent time in these spaces.
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