Reviews Archives

December 16, 2014 3 min read

"[...] it is striking how many of the authors in Icon were imprinted by their subjects in their teens or other formative moments in their lives, while working out who they were, and who they were not." Read More

‘Nora Webster’ by Colm Tóibín

Dan Lopez

Fiction Reviews

December 15, 2014 2 min read

Colm Tóibín’s latest novel, Nora Webster, has landed on multiple best of the year lists. It’s a fitting tribute for a book that is largely about taking stock. Read More

‘Snackies’ by Nick Sumida

Cathy Camper

Illustrated Reviews

December 11, 2014 2 min read

If a snack is a tasty little bite of fun food between meals, a snackie must be an even tinier, more fun-filled nibble of something good. And that’s exactly what Nick Sumida serves up in his collection of mini-comics Read More

‘Love Between Men: Seductive Stories of Afternoon Pleasure’ Edited by Shane Allison

Mykola Dementiuk

Erotica Reviews

December 11, 2014 3 min read

In the 1970s and ‘80s, I would drop by some Greenwich Village bookstore along West 8th Street or down Christopher...

‘A History of the Unmarried’ by Stephen S. Mills

Thomas March

Poetry Reviews

December 9, 2014 3 min read

Many of the most compelling poems in the collection examine the liberties—sexual, intellectual, and imaginative—that intimacy can actually encourage, not just withstand. Read More

‘Under a Falling Star’ by Jae

TheBookgeek

Reviews Romance

December 8, 2014 2 min read

A good lesbian romance is always welcome, but a romance with wit and humor is a most welcome gift to...

‘Totempole’ by Sanford Friedman

Steven Cordova

Fiction Reviews

December 7, 2014 6 min read

Totempole’s frank dealings with sex are not only notable but distinguish it from more well-known early gay novels like The City and the Pillar Read More

“What if I risk/Taking the head of death/Here in the dark, far/And deep”: Jericho Brown Adds Risky, Prophetic Poems to His Evolving, Elegiac Canon

Julie Marie Wade

Poetry Reviews

December 3, 2014 7 min read

Julie Marie Wade on Jericho Brown's latest poetry collection The New Testament Read More

‘A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C.’ by Genny Beemyn

Philip Clark

Nonfiction Reviews

December 1, 2014 5 min read

Beemyn shows an impressive ability to synthesize multi-faceted stories into readable narratives. Read More

‘Just Girls’ by Rachel Gold

TheBookgeek

Fiction Young Adult

December 1, 2014 2 min read

Let me start with a quick summary of Just Girls published by Bella Books and written by the award-winning author,...

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

‘Icon’ Edited by Amy Scholder

‘Nora Webster’ by Colm Tóibín

‘Snackies’ by Nick Sumida

‘Love Between Men: Seductive Stories of Afternoon Pleasure’ Edited by Shane Allison

‘A History of the Unmarried’ by Stephen S. Mills

‘Under a Falling Star’ by Jae

‘Totempole’ by Sanford Friedman

“What if I risk/Taking the head of death/Here in the dark, far/And deep”: Jericho Brown Adds Risky, Prophetic Poems to His Evolving, Elegiac Canon

‘A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C.’ by Genny Beemyn

‘Just Girls’ by Rachel Gold

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