When Gray Adams, former ballet dancer turned academic, gets stuck turning his dissertation into a book, he does what any...
Since I first discovered John Irving while I was in college, with his breakout novel, The World According to Garp,...
Since the nineteenth century, New York City has provided inspiration, sanctuary, and community for millions of LGBTA Americans and immigrants...
Welcome to the inaugural installment of “Publishing Ins and Outs,” a column geared toward helping aspiring and beginning writers through the rough seas of the publishing industry. Read More
Fans of Hollywood, once content with maps detailing the homes of movie stars, now prefer detailed flow charts of the...
"There’s no question that I’ve always identified with a wide range of sexual desires."
By now, John Irving trusts his audience to suspend its recognition of his set pieces—something like a regional stage director presenting a re-purposed backdrop. In his latest novel, In One Person, those mainstays —an absentee father, wrestling mats, “sexual outsiders”— are transformed through a shift in point of view and tone (less darkly comic, more serious). Moreover, this time out, someone in Irving’s world fesses up to harboring bisexual desires.
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"...you can no more separate Cool from Blackness than you can separate Hula from Hawaiians, or Yoga from Indians, or French cuisine from the French. "
Author Rebecca Walker talks with Lambda about her latest edited collection, Black Cool: A Thousand Streams of Blackness, the appropriation of Blackness, and the African cosmology of cool. Read More
Do you have problems with your love life? Hate your job? Your social life lacking that certain zing? All questions can be answered through literature—or maybe at least by the people who create it. With that in mind, we here at The Lambda Literary Review have started our very own advice column called “Reader Meet Author."
This month’s column is handled by celebrated author Scott Heim. Read More
This book is changing. Yesterday it was a hefty yearbook filled with pictures of Lady Gaga taken by Terry Richardson....
Time to shatter that Fortress of Solitude. At the recent Kapow Comic Book Conference, DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio stated...
