While still rooted in the loss and triumph of bloody battles, Myers challenges the well-worn patriot’s tale by focusing on Deborah Sampson Gannett, a real-life historical figure who successfully disguised herself as a man in order to enlist in the Revolutionary army. Read More
A church and a bar are two very different institutions, but Marie Cartier, in Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall, proposes that the bar, and specifically the gay bar, served both a communal and spiritual function for many queer women in the mid-twentieth century, pre-Stonewall. Read More
In his well-reviewed debut Enter, Night, a chilling and atmospheric throwback to Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot fused with the gothic...
Butch Queens Up in Pumps is about more than just Detroit Ballroom culture; it provides a thorough theorizing and portrayal of how people marginalized by "otherness" build alternative communities and self-sustaining cultures in the margins. Read More
"[...] Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman sets forth a different definition of a 'reader’s novel': this is a novel for voracious readers of literary fiction and fiction in translation." Read More
Siek’s poems have a way of hooking you in with the specificity of daily life’s doldrums (commuting, car battery lugging, grocery shopping, mail opening, dishwashing, working, and working out) and the speaker’s inner thoughts and lively, sometimes brooding associations. Read More
In Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk, author Melinda Chateauvert reveals the relatively unknown history of sex workers’ involvement in LGBT civil rights protests in the United States. Read More
Oh, sweetheart. How can I explain this to you, when you have so little experience of meanness? When your whole...
Novels about war, like novels about all-boys schools, are usually as much about male bonding as they are about war or growing up. In this regard, Tatamkhulu Afrika’s Bitter Eden, which is set in a series of WWII POW camps, fits the mold. Read More
Janus is the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions; he looks to the past and to the future. Janus is...
