A Rocker from the Age of Punk
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad Cleis Press. 403 pages, $16.95 See a Little Light, titled after one of…More
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Bright Lights, Dark Days
The title Hold Tight Gently comes from the section of poems about AIDS from [Essex] Hemphill’s unpublished manuscript Domestic Life.
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Slipping Beauty Past the Soviet Censors
In Cinema of Sergei Parajanov Steffen makes great use of the documentation surrounding Parajanov’s work, which includes all sorts of scripts and literary treatments, original texts that served as the basis for his films, official Communist Party letters and memos, and Parajanov’s speeches and interviews.
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A Voice You May Remember
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography By Richard Rodriguez Viking. 235 pages, $26.95 WHAT MANY LISTENERS remember about the commentaries that Richard Rodriguez delivered for years on the PBS Newshour…More
Choreographer David Roussève Is Out with Stardust
DAVID ROUSSEVE is artistic director and choreographer of Reality, a dance theater company that has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America. In addition, Roussève is professor…More
Edward Field’s Magical Movie Moments
NOWADAYS, when so many poets write about popular culture, it seems inconceivable that there was a time when they did not. But there was such a time. Up until…More
Lou Reed (1942–2013) Under Ground
HE WAS the “Johnny Cash of New York rock,” said Mick Jagger. He was “pop’s truly great poker face,” said Bono. He was Lou Reed, co-founder of the avant-garde…More
RIP Fred Phelps (1929–2014)
SO, Fred Phelps is dead. But how to acknowledge the death of someone who was so notorious for the way in which he celebrated the deaths of gay people,…More
BTW
Planet of the Gay Apes The paranoid style of American politics is such that it’s a safe bet that eventually every conspiracy theory that can be conceived will be conceived—and…More
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