THIS BOOK is a bona fide curiosity—a volume of 125 short surveys of major, minor, and often totally neglected works of British, Irish, and Commonwealth gay male fiction.

Beginning with the Mirror: Ten Stories about Love, Desire and Moving between Worldsby Peter DubéLethe Press.  178 pages, $15. NOWHERE in Beginning with the Mirror is the author identified…More

American Guy, edited by Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum, grew out of an academic conference of the law and literature movement, a subfield of legal scholarship that examines the law in and through literature.

A View from the Bottom is part of Duke University’s “Perverse Modernities” series, and the book’s cover, depicting a pair of legs held aloft by two hands, makes it clear what the “bottom” in the title refers to.

Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers Edited by Wendell Ricketts FourCats Press.  486 pages, $18.95 THE COMMERCIALIZATION and mainstreaming of gayness is very much on…More

In Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist,
and the Politics of Gay Love in America, Terry Mutchler writes about the confusion of early courtship and the thrill of the consummation, about stealing a kiss in the darker corners of the capitol building.