Prince’s Legacy: ‘Set your mind free’
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON was as loved by fans at the end of his life as at any time of his career. When he took the stage of the 2015…More
Browsing: September-October 2016
September-October 2016
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Straight Abe: Back Like a Bad Penny
The debate over Lincoln’s sexuality provoked sharp reactions among academics. As far as I know, most of the writers in question haven’t revisited their assessments. Strozier now proves an exception with a new book: Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed.
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BTW
Outside of Convention The Republican National Convention seemed equally divided between vitriol and wrath, but at least some of the delegates were having a good time, and the result…More
Readers’ Thoughts
John Boswell’s Precursors: An Exchange To the Editor: In his homage to John Boswell in the May-June issue, Brian Bromberger failed to mention one of the three books that was…More
It’s Time to Retire the Word ‘Homophobia’
WITH THE BLOOD from the massacre on Pride Day in Orlando barely dry, let me put forth a modest proposal: the word “homophobia” is inadequate and a misnomer, and…More
Can the GLB Vote Swing an Election?
THE ELECTION looms. No doubt you are either checking the poll numbers on 538.com and the mini-scandals on Politico on an hourly basis, or you’re studiously avoiding the whole…More
All 3 Branches at Stake in November
AS I GET OLDER, I am losing hope that I will outlive the need for an article about the impact a forthcoming election will have on GLBT people. At…More
Clans of the Southern Wild
[In Black Sheep Boy: A Novel in Stories, Martin] Pousson layers and lacquers sentences in such a way that the reader gets the colors of regionalism through the universal longing for escape.
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A Chicagoan Roams Berlin
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 294 pages, $26. THIS ENGAGING, highly literate second novel by Darryl Pinckney follows a young gay black man’s…More
Mother of Morocco
Infidels is perhaps best read after being introduced to Taïa’s earlier work in translation. In its multiple first-person voices, Taïa has certainly moved into new and challenging narrative territory. Like his previous work, Infidels is short and austere. He has created in Slima a memorable woman, neither a victim nor exactly a martyr. She is a force, seeking salvation on her own terms.
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