Memories of Marginality
TWO recently published short story collections—one written by an African-American professor, the other by a Puerto Rican author—provide unique perspectives into the lives of queer minorities in the United States.
MoreTWO recently published short story collections—one written by an African-American professor, the other by a Puerto Rican author—provide unique perspectives into the lives of queer minorities in the United States.
MoreALI LIEBEGOTT’S FICTION is in a direct line of descent from the road trip novels of the Beat Generation
MoreMarcel Proust by Adam Watt Reaktion Books. 208 pages, $16.95 THIS IS an amazing book, given its small size, standing on the backs of much weightier biographies of…More
Diary of a Gay Priest is one of the funniest and sanest memoirs I’ve ever read
MoreJUDY GRAHN was born in Chicago in 1940. This is just about the only ordinary thing that can be said about the self-identified working-class lesbian poet.
MoreIn Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, B. Jack Copeland argues that we should not assume that Turing took his own life, because we don’t really know how he died. What matters more is …
MoreThe essays are grouped by subject matter—personal history, writers, iconic movie stars, artists—but autobiographical elements appear in so many that the collection is surprisingly unified.
MoreTHE TITLE of the first chapter in Jorge Olivares’ study of Reinaldo Arenas—“I Scream, Therefore I Am”—is taken from Before Night Falls, which may be, for many North American readers, the only book by Arenas they know, or know of, because they’ve seen the 2000 film starring Javier Bardem. But in Becoming Reinaldo Arenas we also look at novels like …
MoreTHE WORLD of poetry for gay poets is increasingly a space where poets of diverse ethnicities are publishing stirring work.
MoreA FORMER ADMAN, an actor, a prolific writer, and—judging by the cover photo on his latest book—David Leddick is a remarkably well-preserved man in his eighties.
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