South Korean Group Creates a Literary Award
FEW PEOPLE expected the announcement last year of the creation of an LGBT literary award in South Korea, the first such book prize in the “Confucian cultural sphere,” which…More
Browsing: September-October 2014
September-October 2014
Blog Posts
Saints and Sinners Do New Orleans
IT’S EXHAUSTING being nice. I don’t even want to speak to the woman with neuropathy from Long Island that I sit beside on a bench outside the New Orleans airport…More
BTW
Quipping for Equality It was one of those stage-managed events in which a politician visits a popular venue and has a few awkward encounters with “real people” for the…More
A 1967 Novel Brought an Old Love to Light
BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS—an educational institution roughly the equivalent of the elite private male boarding school in the United States, but far more influential in the formation of social identity…More
On the Poetry of Unrequited Love
WHEN I WAS in the grip of despair about a situation of unrequited love, I decided to make a list of the benefits of that state. Alas, I cannot…More
Wider PrEP Use Could Reduce HIV Infections
LAST MAY, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a major step toward transforming HIV prevention in the U.S. by recommending that healthcare providers consider prescribing pre-exposure…More
Hobby Lobby Ruling Torpedoes ENDA Bill
A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled late last June in the “Hobby Lobby” case that companies can deny coverage of certain birth control methods if the company’s owners oppose…More
Marriage Regained
The Case Against 8 Directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White Moore’s Filmed Goods and Services, Tripod Media IT HAS BEEN over a year since Prop 8 and DOMA…More
Music Briefs
Reviews of the book: Autobiography by Morrissey; and the albums: In the Company of Strangers by Hannah & Maggie, and Human by Joseph Eid.
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Cabaret Just Keeps Getting Zanier
Cabaret Directed by Sam Mendes Roundabout Theatre Company, New York City IF YOU ONLY KNOW the musical Cabaret from the iconic Bob Fosse film starring Liza Minnelli and Michael…More