Lillian Faderman Tells the Gay Story to Date
HISTORIAN Lillian Faderman is an LGBT culture hero who has won several lifetime achievement awards for her groundbreaking scholarship in LGBT history. Her most recent books are Gay L.A.…More
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What’s New Is How We View
LEAVE IT to director John Waters to succinctly capture why film scholar and critic B. Ruby Rich is such a pleasure to read: “Ruby Rich has to be the…More
The Stained Glass Closet
Visions of Queer Martyrdom is essentially the story of the clash between the “muscular Christianity” of the Protestant Church of England and the Anglo-Catho-lics who, while remaining in the Anglican fold, formed a counterculture of their own by turning to Catholic ritual, sacraments, and imagery.
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Tóibín’s Connection to Bishop: Silence
On Elizabeth Bishop describes how Tóibín was influenced early on by Bishop, not only by her assiduous attention to detail but also by what she left unsaid, by the power of her empty spaces. Conversational in tone, this book is the fifth in Princeton University’s lively series.
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Homo Politicus
While Frank says that no one is too busy or virtuous not to enjoy a private life, we must conclude that the world of politics is essentially where he has lived his life.
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The Company He Kept Company
Author Arthur Vanderbilt presents his subject not as someone who speaks for himself but as an appendage to others, usually men of wealth and position and/or noteworthy talent.
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Meditations of a Freudian Philosopher
Age enters Thoughts and Things at the end. The forlorn narrator of La Casse, who has spent his life assiduously collecting bits of scrap metal, remnants of tools used to conquer, has a momentary vision of a world where people are linked in a human community.
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Life of a Poet, Friend, Ventriloquist
Hammer has done a wonderful service, mining every conceivable archive for this mammoth undertaking, but also tracking down as many of Merrill’s peers, friends, and lovers as are now to be found. Hammer comments that his subject “enjoyed people, and needed lots of them.
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The Killer with Something Extra
Looking at what he terms the “homicidal homosexual” in the history of American theater, Schildcrout asks us to rethink the links between deviant sexualities and murderous plot lines.
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The Earnest Generation
A Work in Progress by Connor Franta Atria/Keywords Press 212 pages, $16.99 I’VE COME TO AN AGE (65) when I realize I live in an entirely different world…More