Author: PHIL GAMBONE

PHIL GAMBONE

Blog Posts

October 26, 2023 0

Countries of Origin, A Review

By Phil Gambone
Deftly-plotted, Countries of Origin is an impressive debut novel. It features a varied, and sharply-drawn, cast of characters. Fuentes’ prose is genial and engaging.

November-December 2023
Features From Current Issue

Essays

Loving Fassbinder

By Akram Herrak: Coming from very different backgrounds, Salem and Fassbinder met by chance, and their story together is one to rival a Greek tragedy.

Essays

Georges Eekhoud’s Forbidden Foray

By Michael Rosenfeld: IN 1965, Guild Press published Georges Eekhoud’s queer novel Escal-Vigor under the title A Strange Love, with a picture of a handsome, bare-chested young man on the front cover (Figure 1).

Essays

An Artist Who Survived the Holocaust

By Emily L Quint Freeman: Shortly after the war, [Gertrude Sandmann] started drawing again. Although she participated in several postwar exhibitions—only in 1974 did she receive significant acclaim at a solo exhibition in Düsseldorf, which included 45 of her later works. Sandmann avidly followed the 1970s women’s movement in Germany, and she supported the women’s art gallery Andere Zeichen (“Different Signs”) in West Berlin.

Essays

Prison and Privilege

By Mark Olmsted: I was ushered in to see an officer about whether I qualified for one of the three gay dorms at the L.A. County Jail. I passed with flying colors.
Blog
1. November 21, 2023 Lie with Me, A Review
2. November 17, 2023 Golden Delicious, A Review
Sign Up for The Gay & Lesbian Review’s Newsletter!

Receive news from The G&LR in your inbox once a month.

Author: PHIL GAMBONE

Read More from PHIL GAMBONE

Blog Posts

Countries of Origin, A Review