Janus is the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions; he looks to the past and to the future. Janus is...
An assortment of writers, including Michelle Tea, Malinda Lo, Darnell Moore, and Miguel Morales, answer a few questions about the nature of queer writing. Read More
All questions can be answered through literature—or maybe at least by the people who create it. With that in mind, we here at The Lambda Literary Review have started our very own advice column called “Reader Meet Author.”
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Signing your very first book is a landmark moment for all writers. It’s like your first crack at kissing or screwing or loving. Possibly, it’s a moment you recall in Technicolor. Or, maybe, it’s a sliver of time coated with murk and fuzz. Read More
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin retells the unbelievable story of a boy who grew to adulthood in the very heart of Hitler’s Germany. Read More
History should always trump nostalgia because “nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” Whoever first said these words—baseball icon Yogi...
"The trick, then, is how we intentionally employ the mischief or menace of language. How have other sort-of poets and artists bucked coherency to make meaning for themselves?" Read More
I still recall prowling the stacks of the Epiphany branch of the New York Public Library on East 23rd Street,...
"One thing I learned in writing for mainstream magazines, as a gay man, who often wanted to write about gay stuff--death and homophobia and boyfriends, assuming those are separate categories--was that straight men, straight male editors--and straight women, just as often, I should add--thought that if they ran one piece about homophobia or AIDS or gay rights or Lesbian Avengers, they had covered the entire topic for all time..." Read More
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, I knew three facts about my mother’s brother, Robert Friend: he...
