Understanding Truman Capote by Thomas Fahy University of South Carolina Press 186 pages, $39.90 IN THE FINAL PAGES of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote’s most popular book, there are…More

Male Sex Work and Society Edited by Victor Minichiello and John Scott Harrington Park Press. 512 pages, $50. ANY BOOK about male prostitution is bound to call to mind the…More

Certainty is a brisk and compelling read, a history lesson without pain. It is literate without being fussily literary and gives us a Newport, Rhode Island, that Edith Wharton would not have recognized.

American Honor Killings:  Desire and Rage Among Men by David McConnell Akashic Books. 256 pages, $15.95 THE TITLE of this book refers to a type of murder that…More

AN AIRPLANE might seem a clichéd place to start a story, but that, and an anguished reflection, are where Judith Frank begins her second novel, All I Love and Know.

Spanning more than twenty years, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 depicts the lives of various characters that offer their perspectives on each other’s lives as well as the historical moment. 

AN ALARMING PASSAGE occurs on page 56 of David Greven’s Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature.