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Reviews of Framed Butterflies by Raad Rahman, and Matthew Connor’s album Farewell Motel.
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It’s Not About the Music
Three albums, 1977’s Low and Heroes, followed by Lodger in 1979, remain essential listening not only because the songs range from the instrumentally gothic “Warsawza” to the crowd-pleasing “Heroes,” but also because they anticipate the ’80s, when Bowie would reinvent himself once more as the poperatic singer of “Modern Love” and “Let’s Dance.”
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Visceral Reactions
I’m Already Disturbed is structured as a series of short essays but moves at the brisk pace of a novel, taking the reader on a quest to find the cause of the author’s debilitating and curious symptoms, and their cure.
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The Bisexual’s Dilemma
The title Fire Shut Up in My Bones is taken from the book of Jeremiah, and the prophet’s next words are: “and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.”
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Song of a Social Butterfly
Justin Martin, the author of Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians, is clearly a man of eclectic interests, having previously written biographies of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ralph Nader, and Alan Greenspan. He has now turned his attention to the biography of an entire group.
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A Novel about Writing a Novel
Miranda’s Book by Alfred Corn Eyewear Publishing. 323 pages, $20. You’ve made a killing. Going with your lover to retrieve a portfolio of art, you somehow manage to…More
After Them, the Déluge
Mary McAuliffe’s Twilight of the Belle ÉpoqueT inevitably delights with its evocation of the glitterati of Paris from 1900 until the end of World War I.
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A Married Man in the ’60s
Mark Merlis has written a deeply satisfying novel, one whose voices continue to echo in your head long after you’ve finished reading it.
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LGBT History 101
Part One begins with an essay by John D’Emilio, one of the most distinguished scholars of LGBT history in America.
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Does Marriage Matter?
One of the old saws directed against marriage has always been that it leads to the loss of a person’s identity. Another is that it perpetuates traditional patriarchal values that many find repugnant. But, …
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