Reviews Archives

January 27, 2014 5 min read

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin retells the unbelievable story of a boy who grew to adulthood in the very heart of Hitler’s Germany. Read More

‘Amor and More: Love Everafter’ edited by Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

January 23, 2014 2 min read

I have to admit, I’m not a fan of anthologies. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with them, I just...

‘The Laboratory of Love’ by Patrick Roscoe

Thomas March

Fiction Reviews

January 22, 2014 2 min read

The Laboratory of Love, Patrick Roscoe’s first collection of fiction in over a decade, offers a series of stories that...

‘The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy’ by James Purdy

Tom Eubanks

Fiction Reviews

January 22, 2014 5 min read

To those lucky saps who find themselves in possession of The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy (Liveright Publishing): be...

‘Necessary Errors’ by Caleb Crain

James McDonald

Fiction Reviews

January 20, 2014 4 min read

Twenty-something Jacob Putnam leaves his native America for post-Communist Prague in an attempt to find himself. Yet this debut novel...

‘Last Salute’ by Tracey Richardson

Rita Salner

Reviews Romance

January 16, 2014 2 min read

Last Salute (Bella Books) begins with Pamela Wright coming home from her shift in the ER of Chicago’s University of Illinois...

‘Straight Razor’ by Randall Mann

David Eye

Poetry Reviews

January 13, 2014 3 min read

There are ways in which this collection of poems (by turns light and searing) doesn’t necessarily want the reader to get too comfortable. Read More

‘Palmerino’ by Melissa Pritchard

Heather Seggel

Fiction Reviews

January 10, 2014 2 min read

Palmerino is definitely a novel of allure: the seductions of history, literature, and especially biography are at its core. Read More

‘Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex’ by Lynne Huffer

Marcie Bianco

Nonfiction Reviews

January 9, 2014 3 min read

Evoking Leo Bersani’s notorious 1987 polemic, “Is the Rectum a Grave?,” Lynne Huffer strives to not only negotiate the divide...

Winter Tales

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

January 8, 2014 6 min read

Winter is one of the most magical of seasons, at once dark and luminous. The winter holidays also carry with...

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

The Queerness of Robots

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

Revisiting an Underground Life: A Look at Gad Beck’s Life in Nazi Berlin

‘Amor and More: Love Everafter’ edited by Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman

‘The Laboratory of Love’ by Patrick Roscoe

‘The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy’ by James Purdy

‘Necessary Errors’ by Caleb Crain

‘Last Salute’ by Tracey Richardson

‘Straight Razor’ by Randall Mann

‘Palmerino’ by Melissa Pritchard

‘Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex’ by Lynne Huffer

Winter Tales

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