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Author: RUTH JOFFRE

RUTH JOFFRE

March-April: The Ampersand Issue
Special 25th Anniversary Book
Features From Current Issue

Book Review

The Enigma of Pierre Loti

PIERRE LOTI was a 19th-century French writer who was admired by writers as various as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Willa Cather, and Marcel Proust, but is now almost totally forgotten.

Essays

Merrily He Strolled Along

WIDELY REGARDED as the greatest living composer in the American musical theater, Stephen Sondheim has in recent years become very open about being a gay man. While coming to terms with his sexuality was a prolonged process, and his public coming out did not occur until he was nearly seventy, the Sondheim phenomenon on Broadway involved revolutionary portrayals of love and sexuality in many of his greatest musicals

Book Review

Before Boystown

Jim Elledge’s The Boys of Fairy Town brings to life this world in all its multiracial diversity from Chicago’s 1837 incorporation until the 1940s: sometimes hidden in the shadows, but often all the rage and thriving openly.

AIDS

‘AIDS activism kept me alive.’

Amber Miller talks with Malcom Gregory Scott, a survivor who fought back.
Blog
1. March 18, 2019 The Pros and Cons of Social Media
2. March 11, 2019 A Podcast: Merrily He Strolled Along
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