Reviews Archives

April 8, 2010 2 min read

The title poem of Kay Ryan’s New and Selected Poems celebrates the “pared down” and simple experiences of life, positing...

‘Map’ by Audrey Beth Stein

Sheela Lambert

Bio/Memoir

April 7, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Map is a memoir about first same-sex love that reads like a page-turning novel. Audrey is a...

‘The Moonlit Earth’ by Christopher Rice

Alan Chin

Fiction

April 6, 2010 2 min read

At thirty years old, Megan Reynolds is an outsider in her affluent hometown of Cathedral Beach, California. She has recently...

‘Conjuring Jesus’ by Brian Day

Kittredge Cherry

Poetry

April 2, 2010 2 min read

A vibrantly alive Jesus, complete with homoerotic desires, emerges from the poetry of Brian Day in his new book Conjuring...

‘The Pure Lover’ by David Plante

Nels P. Highberg

Bio/Memoir

April 1, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Before he begins the story itself, David Plante quotes a line from the journals of his partner,...

‘The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet’ by Myrlin A. Hermes

Nathan Tipton

Fiction

March 30, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist First off, a confession: although I love Shakespeare and consider myself an avid Shakespearean scholar and...

‘The Art of Jaime Hernandez’ by Todd Hignite; Intro by Alison Bechdel

Aaron Krach

Nonfiction

March 26, 2010 2 min read

The art of Jaime Hernandez is wonderful. It’s subtle, contemporary, and emotionally satisfying. I cannot say the same about the...

Two Books by Timothy Liu

Jason Schneiderman

Poetry

March 25, 2010 6 min read

Ever prolific, Timothy Liu published two books in 2009, one a collaboration with the visual artist Greg Drasler, the other...

‘Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship’ by Dwayne Raymond

Charles Casillo

Bio/Memoir

March 24, 2010 3 min read

Here we have a literary memoir without a supporting cast of glitzy celebrities, no salacious gossip, and not a hint...

GunnShots: Spring 2010

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Mystery

March 23, 2010 9 min read

A Roundup of Gay Crime Writing by Drewey Wayne Gunn. Read More

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

‘Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform’ edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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

‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems’ by Kay Ryan

‘Map’ by Audrey Beth Stein

‘The Moonlit Earth’ by Christopher Rice

‘Conjuring Jesus’ by Brian Day

‘The Pure Lover’ by David Plante

‘The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet’ by Myrlin A. Hermes

‘The Art of Jaime Hernandez’ by Todd Hignite; Intro by Alison Bechdel

Two Books by Timothy Liu

‘Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship’ by Dwayne Raymond

GunnShots: Spring 2010

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