Farrar Strauss and Giroux Archives

May 18, 2014 4 min read

"The Tastemaker is essential reading for anyone interested in how America emerged from the cultural shadow of Europe in the last century." Read More

‘My 1980s and Other Essays’ by Wayne Koestenbaum

John Bavoso

Nonfiction Reviews

August 11, 2013 2 min read

My 1980s and Other Essays is an incredibly timely hodge-podge of prose that expertly blends nostalgia-free self-reflections, reluctant bits of advice, and breathless love letters to idols literary, artistic, and musical[...] Read More

John Waters: Roles of a Lifetime

Aaron Tilford

Features

October 4, 2011 18 min read

“I am neurotic. But at the same time, I’m quite happy being neurotic. I think you must figure out a...

‘The Intimates’ by Ralph Sassone

Desiree Diaz

Fiction Reviews

June 15, 2011 2 min read

With Ralph Sassone’s first novel, the story attempts to show the delicate intricacies between friendship and romance between a gay...

New In January: Toibin, Levithan & Rich

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

Features

January 3, 2011 3 min read

How beautiful the turning of the year! If, like many of us, you made a resolution to read more books...

2010 in Review: Best Book Covers

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

Features

December 29, 2010 4 min read

Judge a Book by its Cover? In a world saturated by visual noise, the book cover is perhaps the single...

Amos Lassen’s Top 11 Books of 2010 (so far)

Amos Lassen

Features Reviews

October 21, 2010 11 min read

Amos Lassen doesn’t think of himself this way, but he is one of the most influential Amazon reviewers in the...

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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 Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America’ by Edward White

‘My 1980s and Other Essays’ by Wayne Koestenbaum

John Waters: Roles of a Lifetime

‘The Intimates’ by Ralph Sassone

New In January: Toibin, Levithan & Rich

2010 in Review: Best Book Covers

Amos Lassen’s Top 11 Books of 2010 (so far)

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