Reviews Archives

A man stands in a boat with the city behind him.

November 28, 2022 4 min read

Germany’s greatest 20th century writer, Thomas Mann, is the subject of a new novel from Colm Tóibín. Tóibín is the author of the widely...

Linguistic Lineage: No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled

Daniel T. O'Brien

Reviews

November 12, 2022 3 min read

Linguistic Lineage in No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa famously wrote about an abundance of borders—linguistic, cultural, “physical”—that cause rifts and...

Wishing for Love and Finding Family: An Interview with Naz Kutub about The Loophole

Laura Carpenter

Interviews

June 16, 2022 6 min read

When one first hears the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, they often lament, “Why, oh why, did he look back?”...

Book Cover of Loveless has a purple background and illustration of person holding fluttering hearts

So you watched Heartstopper, but have you read Loveless?

Molly Catherine Turner

Reviews

June 7, 2022 3 min read

“I had been so desperate for my idea of true love that I couldn’t even see it when it was...

cover of "Mother Tongue" by Chaelee Dalton

A Look Back: 9 Queer & Trans BIPOC Chaps from 2021

Muriel Leung

Features

April 6, 2022 7 min read

A roundup of selected QTBIPOC chapbooks published in 2021, featuring poems about diaspora, language, queerness, and more. Read More

May We Present… Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué’s Madness

Willem Finn Harling

Interviews

March 31, 2022 9 min read

Welcome to May We Present…, a column from Lambda Literary that highlights writers with recent or forthcoming publications. This March, we’re...

Edgar Gomez’s Intricate and Emotive Memoir, High-Risk Homosexual

Matthew Caprioli

Reviews

March 28, 2022 4 min read

Publishers tend to market gay memoirs as campy, joyful, and frivolous or serious, profound, and brooding. High-Risk Homosexual, the debut...

The Mutable Fungal Fantasias of Amanda Monti’s Mycelial Person

Kamikaze Jones

Reviews

March 16, 2022 5 min read

If you’ve ever encountered them in the wild, you would know that Amanda Monti has a speaking voice that can...

A Radical Lesbian: Review of The Daring Life And Dangerous Times of Eve Adams

Anne Charles

Reviews

January 20, 2022 5 min read

LGBTQ historian Jonathan Ned Katz has produced a study in detective work. The journey began on December 1, 2016, when...

Cover of If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich

Seven Shimmering LGBTQ YA Novels to Illuminate Winter Nights

Todd Wellman

Features

December 6, 2021 4 min read

Seven new LGBT YA novels debuting this winter from December 2021 to February 2022 featuring fantasy fiction, contemporary novels, and more. 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

How The Dead Teach the Living: A Dying Reader’s Guide

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 Magician, Colm Tóibín’s Sweeping Fictionalized Biography of Thomas Mann

Linguistic Lineage: No’u Revilla’s Ask the Brindled

Wishing for Love and Finding Family: An Interview with Naz Kutub about The Loophole

So you watched Heartstopper, but have you read Loveless?

A Look Back: 9 Queer & Trans BIPOC Chaps from 2021

May We Present… Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué’s Madness

Edgar Gomez’s Intricate and Emotive Memoir, High-Risk Homosexual

The Mutable Fungal Fantasias of Amanda Monti’s Mycelial Person

A Radical Lesbian: Review of The Daring Life And Dangerous Times of Eve Adams

Seven Shimmering LGBTQ YA Novels to Illuminate Winter Nights

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