Coming of Age in Solitary
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore Nation Books. 256 pages, $26. BOOKS SHOULD NOT be judged by…More
A Star Is Reborn
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pointes Peebles Riverhead Books. 464 pages, $26. AS WHOOPI GOLDBERG said of Julia Roberts, “Julia Roberts was not always Julia Roberts.”…More
The Great Sarah’s Rival
Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever by Peter Rader Simon & Schuster. 275 pages, $26. THE TITLE of this…More
Preludes to a Genre
Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel by Natasha Hurley University of Minnesota Press. 320 page, $27. WHERE DID today’s gay novel come from? Did it spring…More
Filling Gaps in the Self
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee Mariner Books. 288 pages, $15.99 ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS of the way through “The Curse,” the first piece in Alexander…More
Inscribing Henry James
Henry James and Queer Filiation: Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era by Michael Anesko Palgrave/MacMillan. 110 pages, $69.99 HENRY JAMES and Queer Filiationis sort of a sequel…More
Why Did Roger Casement Have to Die?
Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement by Martin Duberman U. of California. 288 pages, $32.95 ROGER CASEMENT (1864–1916) was an Irish diplomat…More
Gender Warriors of Yore
Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell MIT Press. 96 pages, $24.95 UPON first looking into this small volume, I had no idea what really big ideas and treasures were…More
Preface: In Search of Stonewall
THE year was 1994. It was the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and, as luck would have it, the year in which a new magazine called The Harvard…More
Three Faces of Cher
Juke-box musicals such as Carole King’s Beautiful, ABBA’s Mamma Mia!, and the Four Seasons’ Jersey Boys don’t always have to make sense if the music and staging are truly spectacular. After the Chicago tryout, the creative team behind The Cher Show have their work cut out for them to shape-shift this vehicle into true fabulousness for its Broadway debut in November at the Neil Simon Theatre.
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