She Who Held the Camera
The images in Polaroids represent a variety of famous names, some immediately recognizable, such as Patti Smith, a beautifully bejeweled Paloma Picasso, and Diana Vreeland.
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Sacks from the Grave
After submitting the final draft of the memoir to his publisher, Sacks learned that he had metastatic cancer, and that it was terminal. He then focused on a series of discursive essays reflecting upon the imminence of his death. These have now been posthumously published as Gratitude, in the manner of a spare, graceful coda to his beautifully rendered memoir.
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A Philosopher’s Double Life
Many of his contemporaries have remarked upon Foucault’s “double life,” and it is this sense of inherent contradiction that forms the theme of François Caillat’s Foucault Against Himself, a collection of interviews with four people who knew and worked with Foucault …
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On First Looking into Sedgwick’s Epistemology
MARKING the 25th anniversary of the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s strange and difficult book The Epistemology of the Closet (1990) is a tough job, but somebody has to…More
Pop Goes the Sexual Revolution
THE FIRST exhibition ever to consider Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe together—their careers overlapped from the late 1960s to the late ’80s—this show is filled with both lovely surprises and a few letdowns.
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The James Sister
Judith Hooper’s Alice in Bed is a fictionalized account of Alice James’ life, and much of the focus is her relationship with William and Henry James, as well as the brothers’ attitudes toward each other.
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What Is ‘Compersion’?
Love’s Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women’s Polyamorous Relationships by Jillian Deri University of Toronto Press. 168 pages, $21.95 JILLIAN DERI introduces this book by explaining that “for…More
The Madoffs at Brideshead
Those People Directed by Joey Kuhn Little Big Horn Films INDIE FILMS work as a rule because they probe a single theme: a slice of one person’s life;…More
Working Out
IN HIS NEW HISTORY of the gymnasium, Eric Chaline writes that one reason people go to gyms as adults is that they enjoyed physical activity when they were young, though I’ve always suspected that for gay male gym-goers the reverse is often the case.
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The Radicalization of Langston Hughes
Selected Letters has assembled a finely textured account of this beloved, productive writer who stayed connected with everyone but kept his own counsel and, in the face of daunting obstacles, endured.
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