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The Lambda Literary Review seeks to elevate LGBTQ+ literature through reviews, interviews, and features. We make space for conversations across genres to showcase the nuances of our community.

This Month's Most Anticipated

June’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books

Suzi Garcia
New In List
7 min read
And it's that time of year again! As the rainbow paraphernalia officially hits Target and everyone under the (at times sweltering) sun begins prepping their floats and their costumes, so do the shelves of your local bookstores' queer section creak under the weight of all the new titles released just in time for Pride. This June's list features an excellent selection of compelling and urgent queer writing across every genre! From Lambda Fellow Katie Jean Shrinkle's atmospheric and haunting new thriller cowritten with Jessica Alexander, to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull's wistful coming-of-age memoir; from Norman Erikson Pasaribu's whimsical short stories to Elliot Page's bold and buzzy memoir; June is sure to rouse you from your reading slump and lengthen your TBR. Read More

Latest Reviews

What We’re Reading: Pride Edition

Suzi Garcia
Features
11 min read
Happy June! There are so many exciting events around the corner, including the Lambda Literary Awards. But as you recoup from Pride or if you just want to celebrate from your couch, we have some great recommendations straight from the staff of Lambda Literary! Read More

Translating the Body: An Interview with Lars Horn

Cameron Finch
Interviews
14 min read
How does one write of a self that is fundamentally displaced? Are our bodies really our own? Who on Earth understands what we are here for? What does it mean to be a body of movement and slippery definitions in a world that runs on categorization, separation, and the exhausting desire to know? What can we learn from the gestures of fish, from water, if we dare to listen and invite them to baptize us?   Read More

Recent Interviews

Translating the Body: An Interview with Lars Horn

Cameron Finch
Interviews
14 min read
How does one write of a self that is fundamentally displaced? Are our bodies really our own? Who on Earth understands what we are here for? What does it mean to be a body of movement and slippery definitions in a world that runs on categorization, separation, and the exhausting desire to know? What can we learn from the gestures of fish, from water, if we dare to listen and invite them to baptize us?   Read More

WRITING IS ALWAYS COLLECTIVE: how we co-wrote a whole book and stayed friends

Theodore Kerr
Reviews
13 min read
From Mykki Blanco and Oliver Sim´s 2022 songs about living with HIV to the CDC´s 1981 report about Pneumocystis Pneumonia and everything both in between and since, there is an inescapable relationship between HIV/AIDS and the written word. Last year we added our voice—or rather, voices—into the mix with the publication of a new co-authored book, We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (Duke 2022).   Read More

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