Two of queer theory’s leading contemporary scholars, Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, have collaborated on a slender, yet powerful, three-essay volume about sex and interrelational attachments. Read More
B. Ruby Rich’s New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut revisits "New Queer Cinema" and the evolution of lgbt film through the turn of the century. Read More
Jagose's latest project is a continuation of her study of how to separate sex from sexuality; her focus on the orgasm is born from her observation that this idealized "thing" has been accorded little critical thought in queer studies. Read More
Though not always elegantly executed—perhaps on purpose, as Cvetkovich indicates early on in the text—Depression succeeds at opening up a public discussion on certain kinds of depression that are often dismissed as trivial... Read More
Renaissance queer “credible” Sarah Schulman’s new memoir Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke University Press) is part manual, part testament on how to learn from one’s ignorance. Read More
Mel Y. Chen offers an enticing study of what is produced at the intersection of cognitive linguistics, queer of color...
Judged solely by its title, Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press) could easily be dismissed by some as just another cynical...
In my most recent review here on Lambda Literary, I considered the late Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s posthumous book The Weather...
In Odd Couples: Friendship at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation, Sociology Professor Anna Muraco of Loyola Marymount University strives to find out why we believe that friendships between gay men and straight women seem to form “naturally,” while friendships between lesbians and straight men seem harder to imagine. Read More
The Weather in Proust is a collection of nine essays, five of which were intended to become part of a book on Proust and an additional four that encompass Sedgwick’s three decades of queer scholarship. Read More
