‘Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare’ Kestryl Cael Lowrey NonfictionReviews March 24, 2011 1 min readThere’s no shortage of potentially queer content in the Shakespearean canon: cross-dressing, fairies, illicit desire and incomprehensible families. It’s surprising...
‘Dunstan Thompson’ ed. by D.A. Powell and Kevin Prufer Brent Calderwood NonfictionPoetryReviews March 17, 2011 3 min readWe’re told not to judge a book by its cover, but just look at the pillow-lipped, sleepy-eyed poet gazing out...
‘The Professor’ by Terry Castle Viet Dinh NonfictionReviews March 17, 2011 2 min readInteresting fact: when it was first published in hardcover, Terry Castle’s The Professor: A Sentimental Education was called The Professor...
Metaphysical Journals & Radical Faeries Thom Nickels Bio/MemoirNonfictionReviews February 17, 2011 10 min readExplorations in Queer Spirituality My interest in religion, spirituality and books along those lines does not exclude a preference for...
‘Balancing on the Mechitza’ edited by Noach Dzmura S. Bear Bergman NonfictionReviews February 15, 2011 3 min readLambda Literary Award Finalist Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community (North Atlantic Books) is an exploration of Judaism...
‘The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You’ by S. Bear Bergman G. Stein-Bodenheimer NonfictionReviews February 14, 2011 5 min readS. Bear Bergman’s latest collection of essays, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (Arsenal Pulp Press), is not the...
‘Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories’ by Elizabeth Freeman Lizzy Shramko NonfictionReviews January 31, 2011 2 min readA professor of English, Elizabeth Freeman sets her literary sights on the overlaps and continuities between sexual and temporal dissidence....
‘Queer Twin Cities’ by GLBT Oral History Project Rachel Wexelbaum NonfictionReviews January 16, 2011 4 min readIn Minnesota, understatement is a virtue. Minnesotans value the ability to endure and make do, preferring to drive a regular...
‘Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain’ by Deborah Cohler Rachel Wexelbaum Nonfiction January 5, 2011 3 min readDeborah Cohler’s Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain (University of Minnesota Press) deftly explores the...
‘Dancing Ledge’ by Derek Jarman Carlo Cattaneo Adorno Nonfiction January 4, 2011 2 min readYou might remember the opening scene of Sebastiane—the first film recorded entirely in Latin—which depicts a score of Roman boys...