Author: PHILIP MOORE

PHILIP MOORE

July-August 2022
Features From Current Issue

Essays

A New England Romance

By Andrew Holleran: In A Union Like Ours, Scott Bane carefully tracks both men’s careers through the changes in American culture that they were either reflecting or contributing to. Cheney struggled with critics who derided him for being too much in the thrall of American Impressionism at a time when the art scene was embracing Modernism.

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: Like most American painters at this time, [Jared] French and [Paul] Cadmus traveled to Europe to absorb its culture and gain recognition for their work. Soon after they arrived, Cadmus painted his first mature painting, titled Jerry (1931), which was a portrait of French.

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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