"McLane has made me appreciate the artful ways that 'high' and 'low' diction co-exist in her own work—and more than co-exist: the ways her idiosyncratic approach to poeming thrives through deft and playful juxtaposition." Read More
Call it a literary crime novel, call it historical fiction, call it lyric and engaging, Frog Music is in a category all its own. Read More
The fragmented episodes of the picaresque plot are tied together by an underlying emotional narrative: that of Nochita trying to balance her mother's values with the need for self-preservation, feeling out the difference between softening and disintegration. Read More
Moïse’s poetry embraces everything from her native Haiti, to the experience of an immigrant child, to Basquiat, to the loss of her uncle to AIDS. With brilliant control, Moïse pulls taut the wire that transforms pain into poetry. Read More
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to stop struggling against the grain.The title, Finding the Grain, suggests searching for something that’s...
To brave the complexity of Stars and for the sheer enjoyment of thoughtful conversation, Lambda spoke with artist, porn star, gentleman-thinker and Delany fan, Dale Cooper.
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Though the book demonstrates an intimacy as telling as a photo album, the ultimate message of the collection is clear: no matter how deeply you might know a place, the world does not belong to you, and you can claim no ownership. Read More
A dual biography, the book profiles Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill, both gifted, successful, HIV+ gay men who came of age in the Reagan years and with the onset of AIDS in America. Read More
Katherine Forrest is one of our iconic lesbian mystery novelists and Kate Delafield was our first out lesbian detective. Read More
A pop culture re-telling of both American and Australian LGBT histories, Altman draws connections to and away from what makes the LGBT community in America and Australia different from each while engaging with the unique struggles each have faced. Read More
