When Nathaniel Met Herman
The following article first appeared in The Boston Phoenix, August 22-28, 2003 issue.
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The Fairy Tale of Edward II
IT HAS BEEN a strange life after death, that of Edward of Caernarfon, born in Wales on April 25, 1284, St. Mark’s Day in the Catholic faith. This is…More
The Beloved’s Bright Wings
FROM ABOUT 1935 until his death in 1989, the Greek artist Yannis Tsarouchis painted and openly exhibited more studies of men in uniform and more male nudes than any…More
Questions for Queer Eye
THERE IS a certain specific risk involved in writing this essay. The current mood in journalism and popular culture welcomes the lighthearted, the upbeat, the optimistic—especially where gay politics…More
What Friends Were For
The Friend by Alan Bray University of Chicago Press 380 pages, $40. THE FRIEND begins with the author’s dramatic discovery two decades ago at Christ’s College, Cambridge,…More
Darwin’s Dead Ends
The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia by Jay Hatheway Palgrave Macmillan 232 pages, $45. Jay Hatheway’s The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia traces the…More
Everybody knows that the Bird is the Word
Language and Sexuality by Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick Cambridge University Press 176 pages, $21. (paper) “WHAT IS SEX?” Language and Sexuality opens with a question that was…More
Not for Every Coffee Table
Art—A Sex Book John Waters and Bruce Hainley Thames & Hudson 208 pages, $29.95 (paper) The comedies of John Waters are practical exercises in æsthetic philosophy. This theme…More
Loving Him Madly
The Concrete Sky: A Novel by Marshall Moore Southern Tier/Harrington Park Press. 274 pages, $17.95 THE TITLE of Marshall Moore’s debut novel, The Concrete Sky, brings to mind…More
Did Being Gay Matter?
Rick Whitaker introduces the essays in his new book, The First Time I Met Frank O’Hara: Reading Gay American Writers, by suggesting that a writer’s sexuality may influence not only what he writes, but also how he writes. While this is nothing new in the realm of literary inquiries, it’s a worthy question and will snag the attention of many readers.
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