Author: Charles Michael Smith

July-August 2022
Features From Current Issue

Essays

A New England Romance

While still in college, F. O. Matthiessen met Russell Cheney on a ship coming back from Europe. It was love at first sight—on Matthiessen’s part at least.

Book Review

Sex and Gender in Native America

By Vernon Rosario: Since 1990, the term Two-Spirit has come to mean many things: “LGBT Native Americans”; or those who blend male and female spirits.

Art

Paul Cadmus’ Art of Cruising

By Ignacio Darnaude: WHEN PAUL CADMUS died … there was barely a ripple in the art world. It’s hard to recall that 65 years earlier he had been the enfant terribleof the art world when his painting of frolicking sailors, The Fleet’s In!, caused an epic scandal.

Essays

The Sea and Sexual Freedom

By Rolando Jorif: WHEN I LECTURE on Herman Melville, I’m usually asked whether he was gay. I answer, probably not. Then I’m asked if he ever had sex with men. I answer, probably, but only when he was young, and only while at sea.
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