Most writers understand that narratives are constructions that can never truly or objectively capture the totality of an event. Using...
Last year the world was captivated by the brazen acts of the Russian group Pussy Riot, whose “Punk Prayer” landed...
In one of Willa Cather's letters to her beloved brother Roscoe she writes, “As for me, I have cared too much, about people and places--cared too hard. It made me as a writer, but it will break me in the end.” Losing those near to her very nearly did break Cather, but it is our great fortune that she let herself care as much as she did. Read More
Daniel Humphrey, in his new book-length study on the Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, points out that since Bergman’s films were brought to America in the 1950s, gay men have been watching them in a unique way... Read More
Perhaps the best way to approach Christopher Isherwood in America: Middlebrow Queer (University 0f Minnesota Press) by Jaime Harker is one idea...
B. Ruby Rich’s New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut revisits "New Queer Cinema" and the evolution of lgbt film through the turn of the century. Read More
Is there still a place for LGBT community newspapers in the world of social media? Tracy Baim’s edited volume Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Papers in America provides a history of the LGBT press, but no easy answers as to its future. Read More
As this country again focuses on its endemic violence, David McConnell’s book couldn’t have arrived at a more apt time....
Jagose's latest project is a continuation of her study of how to separate sex from sexuality; her focus on the orgasm is born from her observation that this idealized "thing" has been accorded little critical thought in queer studies. Read More
