Faun is bold on the page and may offend some readers: Gil refers to “queers” and “trannies,” is put off by the erections he causes in other men, and assumes all older men are potential child molesters (a holdover from his Catholic upbringing).
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This series, “Contemporary Film Directors,” is now joined by Rob White’s in-depth examination of one of the most vital filmmakers
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Jacques Balthazart’s The Biology of Homosexuality makes the strongest, the most detailed, and the most balanced argument in favor of the biological case for homosexuality.
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THE TITLE of Declaring His Genius refers to Oscar Wilde’s notorious remark upon landing in New York in 1882 (“I have nothing to declare but my genius”).
MoreA significant portion of the correspondence reveals that his stint in the army was positively “dreadful”—a word repurposed by Burns to mean “homosexual.” Margolick provides enough war correspondence to justify his claim that Burns was an important chronicler of gay life in the military.
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How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits, a collection of essays, has a theme: the sin of non-communication.
MoreIMAGINE your spouse, partner, lover goes out for a walk one evening and never comes back. The police are called, you tell them your story, and nobody is to be found. What would you do?
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The publication of Francis Bacon: Five Decades coincides with its exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the artist’s death.
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WHILE ostensibly telling the story of the great fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, Mary Blume offers a wider view of the French fashion scene and larger social significance—wider, perhaps, than some might think it deserves.
MoreTHIS COMPENDIUM of Martin Duberman’s published writings has funneled into a single volume samples from an œuvre that includes some twenty books and numerous essays written over a period of some fifty years. The result of this distillation is a volume of 26 essays described in the book’s subtitle as “the essential historical, biographical, and autobiographical writings” of the author.
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