It is Colin R. Johnson’s contention in Just Queer Folks that well into the early decades of the 20th century, “what looks from today’s perspective like decidedly queer behavior was anything but uncommon or unheard of in the hinterland.”

To Eat: A Country Life by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 194 pages, $25. IN EARLY 1970, when Joe Eck and his partner Wayne…More

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A LONGTIME CORRESPONDENT for National Public Radio, Frank Browning is the author of two widely discussed books in the field of gay studies: The Culture of Desire (1993) and A Queer Geography (1996). His explorations of gay history and gay identity have been praised as expansive and provocative, engaging and readable. His latest work, The Monk and the Skeptic: Dialogues on Sex, Faith, and Religion, is all of those things.

THIS SEDUCTIVE NOVEL follows two couples in 1940 Lisbon as they await an ocean liner for America that will enable them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe with war closing in.

Becoming a Londoner deals with the physical world, social life, and David Plante’s relationship with Nikos.

It was in 1909 that [Amy] Lowell met Ada Russell through mutual friends. Russell, an actress, was in Boston appearing in a play, and the women were drawn to each other right away. It appears that after meeting again in 1912, they started the relationship that lasted until Lowell’s death in 1925 at age 51.