Timothy Woodward’s debut novel If I Told You So (Kensington) chronicles experiences familiar to many queer folks: the nervous, terrified thrill of...
The Galaxie and Other Rides is a collection about class and family and cars. It covers a host of hot-button issues: drugs, addiction, teen moms, HIV, war, the dying automotive industry, prostitution. Sigler manages to make her characters heartfelt and believable, even when their actions might render them irredeemable... Read More
Eyes of Water & Stone is the story of a love affair between an American and Cuban that is plagued by a history of denial; a forbidden romance set on a prohibited island. Similar to United States and Cuba relations, the affair is complicated by ideals of freedom and economics. Read More
Lovers (Europa Editions) by French author Daniel Arsand is a book reveling in love in all its forms: love between men, love between parent and child, temporary love, and everlasting love... Read More
When Gray Adams, former ballet dancer turned academic, gets stuck turning his dissertation into a book, he does what any...
...Boyne raises provocative questions about guilt, loyalty and courage. How moral is it to battle for foreigners’ rights abroad while inequalities “we accept without question” still rule at home? How courageous can a man be if he fights for king and country but lives his whole life pretending to be something he’s not? If love is all that matters, as the characters continually aver, why can they never achieve it in any satisfying way? Read More
Since I first discovered John Irving while I was in college, with his breakout novel, The World According to Garp,...
Let’s be honest, great expectations of literary endeavors often result in readerly disappointment. But this is not the case with...
Meet Leonard, a brainy 14-year-old dweeb growing up in 1970s Berkeley, California. He’s got the usual bright kid’s powers of...
Delany clearly wants to push buttons, intellectually and emotionally, but he doesn't restrict that to those buttons relating to sex. He also challenges us to think about race, class, morality, and literature itself, and what preconceptions we bring to those subjects. Read More
