Adult Onset by Ann-Marie MacDonald Tin House Books. 388 pages, $25.95 ADULT ONSET spans one week, but from within that boundary it frequently comes unstuck in time. Its…More

Darius in the Shadow of Alexander by Pierre Briant. Translated by Jane Marie Todd Harvard University Press. 579 pages, $39.95 HISTORY is written by the winners, but in recent…More

Robert Beachy’s comprehensive history of gay Berlin from the 1870s to the 1930s shows that the emergence of gay and lesbian cultures in the modern West owed much to what Mirbeau identified as Berlin’s pederasty and invention—its practice and theory—and Beachy makes a compelling case for the “German invention of homosexuality.”

Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 385 pages, $28. AN OLD TRUNK, a cache of letters, and revelations about…More

In It’s Not Over, Signorile reports that transgender and gay youths have experienced an uptick in violence and bullying in many parts of the country, where homophobia has become more public and more violent in response to the increased visibility of gay and transgender people in the news and in everyday life.

The Mad Boy is a thorough, if not exhaustive, look into a long lost world. Its glossy pages, each one of which is decorated with the image of a blue dove, contribute to its heft, and there is a generous supply of photographs.