Brief reviews of School Days: A Novel by Jonathan Galassi, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters, and Harold Norse: Poet Maverick, Gay Laureate.

Short reviews of the novels 148 Charles Street, The Other Man, and Young Mungo, and Volume 2 of Samuel Delany’s Occasional Views.

Brief reviews of A PROXIMATE REMOVE: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji, ALL OF YOU EVERY SINGLE ONE: A Novel, I’M NOT HUNGRY, BUT I COULD EAT: Stories, and WHAT WE PICK UP: Stories

Reviews of The Damage: A Novel; A Long Way from Douala; Because Art: Commentary, Critique & Conversation; Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God’s Waiting Room; and A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah.

Reviews of Of Solids and Surds, Occasional Views, Volume 1 “More about Writing” and Other Essays by Samuel R. Delany; Home Stretch by Graham Norton; and Take Down Portraits: Drawings and Portraits by Larry Stanton by Winthrop Smith

Book Reviews of The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg, On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place, Angels on a Freight Train: A Story of Faith and Queer Desire in Nineteenth-Century America, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger, As Far as I Can Tell: Finding My Father in World War II by Phil Gambone, Catrachos: Poems, The Renunciations, and Sonata Form.