Settling for ‘Equality’
Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman Univ. of California Press 246 pages, $27.95 WHEN A WRITER puts a question mark at the end of a…More
Browsing: September-October 2018
September-October 2018
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Interpretations of a Sexual Assualt
IT IS CHRISTMAS EVE, and Eddy Bellegueule, the protagonist in Édouard Louis’ second novel, History of Violence, is walking back to his apartment after a night out with friends. …
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A Reader’s Own Story
White’s favorite 20th-century Japanese fiction writers are Jun’ichirō Tanizaki and Yasunari Kawabata, and he praises both for showing that “there’s more to contemporary literature than American coffee-cup realism.”What he prizes in these writers, and many others, is strangeness, an idea that runs throughout The Unpunished Vice.
MoreIsak Lindenauer, Impresario of Antiques
THIS INTERVIEW was conducted by the late Jim Nawrocki and is the last of his many contributions to this magazine. I didn’t realize how sick Jim was when he…More
BTW
Shake It! Their wrestling may be fake, but three members of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have been producing a breakfast cereal called BootyO’s that’s real and edible and probably…More
Letters to the Editor
A Shipload of Exceptions to Billy Budd Article Editors Note:Quite a few letters were received regarding errors in an essay in the July-August issue titled “For the Love of…More
Around the World in Eight Years
Global Gay is the result of eight years Martel spent on “a long field survey conducted in more than 50 countries” spanning, in alphabetical order, Algeria to Vietnam.
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‘I just wanted to freeze a moment.’
THE WORLD knows him as Peter Berlin, but his real name is Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Heune. “Peter Berlin” was a stage name that he adopted upon arriving in…More
Russia and the Art of Survival
THE YEAR WAS 1928. The Russian poet and diarist Mikhail Kuzmin had just performed his final public reading. He had been invited by a group of students whose enthusiasm…More
Did the Nazis Enact a ‘Gay Genocide’?
IS IT POSSIBLE, is it legitimate, to speak of a “gay genocide” under the Nazis before and during World War II? There’s no debating that the Nazis rounded up…More