A Voice (Contralto) for Social Justice
This memoir documents Ronnie Gilbert’s struggles to discover herself as an artist and as a woman.
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If You Remember the ’70s…
“I’M OLD ENOUGH to justify writing about my history,” Gary Indiana remarks early on in his new memoir, “but too old to remember much of it.”
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A Family Transition
In Nutt’s telling, this is the story of an American family as grounded in traditional values as they come, coming to grips with a situation that they were never prepared for. They rise to the challenge because they love their kids, and they are enriched for the effort.
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Nonacademic Interests
PAIGE SCHILT’S new memoir Queer Rock Love opens with Schilt embedded in graduate school, immersed in radical political thought and queer theory, and only beginning to realize that she is “not only politically gay” but actually gay.
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Trick Collecting for Fun and Photos
READERS of Justin Spring’s recent biography, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Sam Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, may be curious to see some of the erotic visual art that Steward produced.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of Michelle Tea’s memoir How to Grow Up, Voices from the Rainbow, and The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature.
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Short Reviews
Review of the book Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion, and the film: The Skeleton Twins.
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Bleak is Beautiful
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell Farrar, Straus and Giroux 208 pages, $23. GARTH GREENWELL is a poet and beginning novelist whose critically acclaimed novella Mitko came…More
No Rose Without a Thorn
A Little Life deserves a mention in any anthology of gay literature, at the very least, for its unconventional treatment of gay identity.
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The Arc of Activism
The lesson of And Then I Danced is that we need more of the radical, outsider, challenge-the-system activism that once animated Segal but now seems lost to him in an excess of self-satisfaction.
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