Browsing: March-April 2015

March-April 2015

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THIS BOOK is a bona fide curiosity—a volume of 125 short surveys of major, minor, and often totally neglected works of British, Irish, and Commonwealth gay male fiction.

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Beginning with the Mirror: Ten Stories about Love, Desire and Moving between Worldsby Peter DubéLethe Press.  178 pages, $15. NOWHERE in Beginning with the Mirror is the author identified…More

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A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoirby Daisy HernándezBeacon Press.  185 pages, $24.95 I TEACH a course in multicultural studies to graduate students in counseling, and I’m…More

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A View from the Bottom is part of Duke University’s “Perverse Modernities” series, and the book’s cover, depicting a pair of legs held aloft by two hands, makes it clear what the “bottom” in the title refers to.

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American Guy, edited by Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum, grew out of an academic conference of the law and literature movement, a subfield of legal scholarship that examines the law in and through literature.

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IN THE DOCUMENTARY The Celluloid Closet (1995), Arthur Laurents memorably observes that “minority audiences watch films with hope. … That’s why nobody really sees the same movie.” His observation…More

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THERE IS A LINE between encouraging religions to reform and become more progressive, something in which I deeply believe, and leaving non-religious people behind, which has become a problem in Western…More

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The following comes from Andrew Lear, an art historian and founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, which will be offering gay tours of New York, including the Met, starting this spring,…More

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QUESTIONS of identity have always been front and center in Myanmar, otherwise known as Burma. After Burma’s independence from British colonial rule in 1948, numerous armed conflicts broke out between…More