Whitaker’s novel is preoccupied with the mimetic impulse, the mind’s habit of hiding from itself and the possibility of change amongst the furniture of the past. Read More
Gengoroh Tagame is a genuine master in his field (that field being bara, gay comics by gay men for gay men). With a bearishly virile style which is instantly recognizable, Tagame's work has finally received a long overdue English translation. Read More
Jordan MacKenzie is a social worker who has recently fled a job at a medium security women’s prison to a...
Pleading in the Blood is the first full-length book on performance artist Ron Athey and its editor, Dominic Johnson, quickly locates Athey not as a member of the punk and queer cultures of the 1980s and 90s (though these, of course, are crucial), but as the narrator of his own life. Read More
This month, Dick Smart interviews engaged romance writers T. J. Klune and Eric Arvin. Read More
The poems of Carl Phillips are not an easy read; that is their innate pleasure. Over time, they become, to...
In Fire Year, the 2012 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, Jason K. Friedman mines two very distinct veins of American fiction: that of the American Jewish experience, and that of the American South... Read More
“If I were a postcard, she could hide me in her pocket / if I were clay / she could...
Though Hardiman’s graphic novel examines a specific underground culture (gay male escorts in London), the questions it asks and the feelings it explores are universal. Read More
The story, Simple Pleasures (Bella Books), starts out benignly enough, with avid softball player Dale Kinsel participating in a charity...
