Nonfiction Archives

A Book Looking Backwards and Forwards at Once: Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York

Emily Shapiro

Reviews

July 8, 2021 8 min read

It’s hard to write about the release of Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP...

From Physique Pictoral to Pornhub, Jeffrey Escoffier’s New Book Charts The Way

Steve Susoyev

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May 21, 2021 5 min read

This book about pornography—with 28 pages of endnotes, a colon in the title, and a $173 price tag on the...

Last Call is a Chilling Addition to the Gay Corner of the True-crime Genre

Tom Cardamone

Reviews

March 13, 2021 2 min read

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York is a stunning addition to the...

José Esteban Muñoz’s Work is a Love Letter to Brownness

Jess Saldaña

Reviews

February 10, 2021 4 min read

Arrive at the place called possibility Try once again to create a language a sense of what it means to...

Finding and Fostering Empathy Online with ‘IRL’ by Chris Stedman

Nick Havey

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January 31, 2021 3 min read

When Chris Stedman started writing IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives, he probably didn’t expect that...

The Deviant’s War is a Timely and Essential Read

Tom Cardamone

Reviews

January 20, 2021 3 min read

Before Stonewall, there were lawsuits, fledgling homophile organizations, and game-changing publications of historic importance. Less sexy and unifying than a...

Two Queer Scholarly Books Distill Ideas About Dyke Networks

Alexandra Juhasz

Reviews

January 7, 2021 13 min read

Cait McKinney, Jen Jack Gieseking, and I are queer feminist professors. We once identified as lesbians. Cait identifies as non-binary...

1996 Allows Readers to Consider Key Moments from the 1990s

Theodore Kerr

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November 24, 2020 4 min read

1996 is a book, an art object, and a 24 year old time capsule, allowing readers in 2020 and beyond...

Wagnerism Grapples with Richard Wagner’s Complex Legacy

Sophie Strohmeier

Reviews

November 24, 2020 9 min read

“Are you peculiarly fond of Wagner?” — a query from a 1908 public questionnaire by gay writer Xavier Mayne, in...

No Modernism Without Lesbians Centers Lesbian Life in the Cultural Landscape of Modernism

Anne Charles

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November 15, 2020 4 min read

Diana Souhami’s deliberately provocative title points to the nature of her project: to place lesbian life and work prominently in...

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A Long Journey for Memory: MariNaomi’s I Thought Your Loved Me

What We’re Reading: Pride Edition

June’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books

Random

A Poem by Trevor Ketner

Features

What We’re Reading: Pride Edition

Black, Queer, Trans, and Millennial: A New Generation of American Poetry: Part III

Black, Queer, Trans, and Millennial: A New Generation of American Poetry: Part I

Interviews

Translating the Body: An Interview with Lars Horn

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

What Could Possibly Stop Us? An Interview with Cary Alan Johnson

Excerpts

In Bed with Joan Nestle

Read This! Excerpt from Trickster Academy by Jenny L. Davis

Read This! Excerpt from Thick City by Katie Jean Shinkle

A Book Looking Backwards and Forwards at Once: Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York

From Physique Pictoral to Pornhub, Jeffrey Escoffier’s New Book Charts The Way

Last Call is a Chilling Addition to the Gay Corner of the True-crime Genre

José Esteban Muñoz’s Work is a Love Letter to Brownness

The Deviant’s War is a Timely and Essential Read

Two Queer Scholarly Books Distill Ideas About Dyke Networks

1996 Allows Readers to Consider Key Moments from the 1990s

Wagnerism Grapples with Richard Wagner’s Complex Legacy

No Modernism Without Lesbians Centers Lesbian Life in the Cultural Landscape of Modernism

What We’re Reading: Pride Edition

Translating the Body: An Interview with Lars Horn

Silvera’s Prequel The First to Die Holds a Story for All Ages

Miah Jeffra takes on Corruption in American Gospel