Reviews Archives

April 28, 2010 2 min read

What becomes of the romance of being young and queer when one gets older? In her first collection, Julie Enszer—poet,...

‘Ash’ by Malinda Lo

Joel A. Nichols

Reviews Speculative Fiction Young Adult

April 27, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Malinda Lo’s Ash isn’t just a lesbian love story, a faerie tale or even only a retelling...

6 Sizzling New Romances

Andrea L.T. Peterson

Romance

April 26, 2010 3 min read

New books are rolling off the presses faster than we can read them! Independent, small presses and major publishing houses...

‘American Voyeur’ by Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Tom Eubanks

Nonfiction

April 23, 2010 3 min read

My first encounter with the journalism of Benoit Denizet-Lewis just happened to be his first cover story for The New...

‘Mute’ by Raymond Luczak

Rigoberto Gonzalez

Poetry

April 22, 2010 2 min read

“A deaf man is a foreign country./ He remains forever a language to learn,” declares the speaker in “Instructions to...

‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

Reginald Harris

Bio/Memoir Reviews

April 21, 2010 4 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist In July 1967, 20-year-old teachers college dropout Patti Smith got off a bus from Philadelphia in...

‘Arusha’ by J.E. Knowles

Lara Zielinsky

Fiction Romance

April 20, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Arusha is a place in Africa, the setting for peace accords to bring calm to a region...

‘Approaching Ice’ by Elizabeth Bradfield

Julie R. Enszer

Poetry

April 15, 2010 2 min read

Long-term obsession provides the poet a palette, onto which she squeezes oil-based paint, mixes and smudges them with knives, then...

‘A Hundred Or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli’ By Mark Griffin

Randall Ivey

Bio/Memoir

April 14, 2010 4 min read

Even before he ever assumed the director’s chair, Vincente Minnelli proved himself a master of the illusory. To begin with,...

‘Advocate Days & Other Stories’ By Mark Thompson

Charles Green

Bio/Memoir

April 13, 2010 2 min read

Mark Thompson has lived in exciting times. Growing up in northern California in the 60s with a passion for journalism...

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

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

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

‘Handmade Love’ by Julie Enszer

‘Ash’ by Malinda Lo

6 Sizzling New Romances

‘American Voyeur’ by Benoit Denizet-Lewis

‘Mute’ by Raymond Luczak

‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

‘Arusha’ by J.E. Knowles

‘Approaching Ice’ by Elizabeth Bradfield

‘A Hundred Or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli’ By Mark Griffin

‘Advocate Days & Other Stories’ By Mark Thompson

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