City Lights Books Archives

May 1, 2016 4 min read

"There were those who didn’t think a black lesbian vampire story—benevolent or not—was such a good idea politically." Read More

Looking at ‘In Cold Blood’: Violence, Masculinity, and Compassion

Thomas Page McBee

Features Opinion

July 26, 2014 4 min read

"In Cold Blood taught me that I could dive into my shadows, face my would-be killer, plumb my heart for the kind of compassion that the worst kind of men never gave me [...]" Read More

‘The End of San Francisco’ by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Sassafras Lowrey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

April 30, 2013 2 min read

Perhaps the greatest strength of the book is Sycamore's ability to capture queer adolescence and immortalize that reality onto the page without sanitizing the struggles. Read More

‘Robert Duncan in San Francisco’ by Michael Rumaker

Ken Harvey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 10, 2013 3 min read

This isn’t a memoir solely about the physical presence of Robert Duncan. It’s also about those who he inspired... 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

The Queerness of Robots

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

Read Jewelle Gomez’s New Foreword for ‘The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition’

Looking at ‘In Cold Blood’: Violence, Masculinity, and Compassion

‘The End of San Francisco’ by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

‘Robert Duncan in San Francisco’ by Michael Rumaker

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