Intimidated by AWP’s mile-long events schedule? Wish you could skip to the cool, gay stuff? Well, put that Command+F down,...
The Review’s fancy new website has only been up for 9 months, but we still wanted to round up our...
Thanks to queer theory – and I mean that sincerely – discursive gymnastics are now an amusing accompaniment to our usually failed attempts to define slippery identity categories that we, by turns, lean into and resist as members of the queer community. I am as guilty as the next gay-queer of both grasping for and pushing against some tangible-yet-nebulous form of gayness. I spend a great deal of time thinking about how we define ourselves, think ourselves into the world, and navigate life as individuals and parts of larger wholes. I don’t have many answers; this makes me restless. Multitudinous as I am, though, I quite like being restless. Which brings me to my recently concluded excursion into the world of Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Read More
There are few more exciting ways to start the new year than with a fresh TBR (or, perhaps more accurately, a TBR going back years to which you can add some fresh new hits). Add to that the inevitable Barnes and Noble gift card from a distant aunt and uncle and the countless reading challenges you signed up for in the last week of December and this list couldn't come at a better time, could it! Read More
In moments of grief and distress, I continually find myself turning to the words of Audre Lorde. A few lines from her poem A Litany for Survival: Read More
In a compelling exploration of racial capitalism, Monica Huerta illuminates the intricate relationship between photography, property, and the body commodity through a critical analysis of copyright law. By intertwining queer performance theory with legal discourse, Huerta skillfully reveals the profound implications of juridical power on photographic mediums, offering readers a rich and thought-provoking perspective on the intersection of art, law, and societal structures. Read More
Sandy Lake is as known for its crime as it is for its lake and small-town charm, and Joshua Moehling's sophomore novel, Where the Dead Sleep, beautifully marries quaint and thrilling. Everyone knows everyone, and, more importantly, everyone's got a secret. Read More
Justin Torres’ stunningly ambitious sophomore outing Blackouts does the tricky work of functioning as more than a novel. The book is an artifact documenting the life and work of queer activist Jan Gay, whose research from the 1930s became the basis of Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns—though, for reasons revealed as the story progresses, her name never graces the cover, nor is it attached to the finished work at all. We learn her true story through the fictional narrative of Juan Gay, a gay Puerto Rican man who, as he lies dying in a space between life and death called the Palace, shares his story and his connection to Jan with the story’s unnamed narrator, a young queer man of Puerto Rican ancestry who first connected with Juan ten years prior in a mental institution. Read More
As we enter into the end of the year, we want to celebrate and mourn the create LGBTQIAP+ authors, scholars,...
