Daphne Sidor, Author at Lambda Literary Review

September 2, 2017 3 min read

Ariel Gore has a very different story to tell about queer parenthood with her new novel We Were Witches Read More

‘The Book of Joan’ by Lidia Yuknavitch

May 1, 2017 3 min read

Imagine a sci-fi blockbuster scripted by a critical theorist and then novelized by a slam poet, and you might come close to anticipating The Book of Joan, a darkly inventive new work from Lidia Yuknavitch. Read More

‘Running’ by Cara Hoffman

Daphne Sidor

Fiction

February 27, 2017 3 min read

Running has plenty of dazzle; it races atop remarkable sentences. But at its core are two people who, accustomed to getting by on nothing, have no idea what to do with the bounties that befall them: success, family, love Read More

‘Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days’ by Jeanette Winterson

Daphne Sidor

Fiction Nonfiction

December 4, 2016 3 min read

For years, Winterson has written a new story every year at Christmastime, and here she collects them for the first time. The result is a book for cold, clear nights and roaring fireplaces. Read More

‘They May Not Mean To, But They Do’ by Cathleen Schine

Daphne Sidor

Fiction Reviews

September 14, 2016 3 min read

Cathleen Schine’s They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a novel about reasonably pleasant people to whom nothing much happens except time, in all its ordinariness and brutality Read More

‘Bull and Other Stories’ by Kathy Anderson

Daphne Sidor

Fiction Reviews

February 27, 2016 3 min read

Bull and Other Stories range in tone and voice from zany comedy to deep humanity Read More

‘The Gap of Time’ by Jeanette Winterson

Daphne Sidor

Fiction Reviews

October 4, 2015 3 min read

Winterson—whose energetic literary career began with the sui generis coming-out novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and has ranged through many forms and eras since—has written a "cover version" of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Read More

‘Night at the Fiestas’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Daphne Sidor

Fiction Reviews

July 5, 2015 3 min read

At its best, Kirstin Valdez Quade's new collection of stories, Night at the Fiestas, sidesteps cliché but keeps the grandeur of her setting by transposing it to her characters—people big as myth, opaque as Scripture Read More

Maggie Nelson: On Writing ‘The Argonauts’ and Doing Justice to Queer Happiness

Daphne Sidor

Features Interviews

April 26, 2015 7 min read

"On one level, I tried to do something I hadn’t done before, which was use the book as a holding container for sentiments of love and happiness [...]" Read More

‘The Argonauts’ by Maggie Nelson

Daphne Sidor

Nonfiction Reviews

April 20, 2015 3 min read

The Argonauts, a slim book by poet and critic Maggie Nelson, contains multitudes. It's an appreciation of her favorite queer thinkers. It's a chronicle of first-time motherhood. It's also the best kind of nonfiction read, the kind that enlarges one's reading list by half. Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘We Were Witches’ by Ariel Gore

‘The Book of Joan’ by Lidia Yuknavitch

‘Running’ by Cara Hoffman

‘Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days’ by Jeanette Winterson

‘They May Not Mean To, But They Do’ by Cathleen Schine

‘Bull and Other Stories’ by Kathy Anderson

‘The Gap of Time’ by Jeanette Winterson

‘Night at the Fiestas’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Maggie Nelson: On Writing ‘The Argonauts’ and Doing Justice to Queer Happiness

‘The Argonauts’ by Maggie Nelson

Reviews

Random

Features

Interviews

Excerpts

Author Daphne Sidor