Fiction Archives

March 1, 2020 3 min read

The fictional Big Burr, Kansas, is the most homophobic town in America. In Celia Laskey’s pithily titled Under the Rainbow, a task force of LGBTQ activists, all queer, move to Big Burr in order to instill acceptance Read More

A Soaring Queer Campus Novel: Brandon Taylor’s Real Life

Sarah Neilson

Reviews

February 25, 2020 3 min read

Real Life is one of those novels that perfectly captures a moment in time while also being timeless Read More

I Know You Know Who I Am by Peter Kispert

Mikey Byrd

Reviews

February 18, 2020 3 min read

I Know You Know Who I Am deftly and sympathetically exposes the role deceit plays in the lives of queer people Read More

Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones

Tara Scott

Reviews

February 13, 2020 3 min read

If you’re at all interested in historical fiction, please do yourself a favor and pick up Floodtide Read More

Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch

Sara Rauch

Reviews

February 3, 2020 3 min read

Verge is volatile and vital, and it hits where it hurts, in the most oddly pleasurable way Read More

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Curt Weber

Fiction

February 2, 2020 2 min read

Greenwell takes wayward longing and makes it a unifying force Read More

Wendy Heard’s Twisty New Thriller The Kill Club Plumbs a Fascinating Moral Dilemma

John Copenhaver

Fiction

January 28, 2020 2 min read

The Kill Club explores complex social and moral questions without sacrificing compelling storytelling. Read More

Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au

Carson Beker

Reviews

January 28, 2020 3 min read

In Spider Love Song you might find a place between hearing and imagination Read More

Dear Twin by Addie Tsai

Michele Kirichanskaya

Fiction

January 22, 2020 1 min read

Dear Twin examines the emotional weight of twin-ness through a queer lens. Read More

One Walk in Winter by Georgia Beers

Tara Scott

Romance

January 14, 2020 3 min read

If this book had to be summed up in a single word, “warm” would be at or near the top of the list 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

Under the Rainbow is Full of Wry Humor and Universal Truths

A Soaring Queer Campus Novel: Brandon Taylor’s Real Life

I Know You Know Who I Am by Peter Kispert

Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones

Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Wendy Heard’s Twisty New Thriller The Kill Club Plumbs a Fascinating Moral Dilemma

Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au

Dear Twin by Addie Tsai

One Walk in Winter by Georgia Beers

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

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta