Some of our finest writers are authors of crime fiction. Russell Banks, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, P.D. James and of course, Val McDermid. These writers don’t just tell a detective tale, they peel back the layers of human experience to reveal all the gory bits we try never to see up close. Read More
Fans of Hollywood, once content with maps detailing the homes of movie stars, now prefer detailed flow charts of the...
"Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that."
Famed author Jeanette Winterson talks with Lambda about her new memoir, her writing process, and her thoughts about the queer community. Read More
Jeanette Winterson’s new memoir returns the scenes of her semi-autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, published when Winterson was twenty-five. Like the car crash you crane your neck to see, readers will once again encounter the harrowing insanity of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Winterson, “a flamboyant depressive; a woman who kept a revolver in the duster drawer, and the bullets in a tin of Pledge.” Read More
Brett Easton Ellis has been tweeting lately about the “Gay Empire,” and if this season’s highest honors in poetry are...
The title poem of Kay Ryan’s New and Selected Poems celebrates the “pared down” and simple experiences of life, positing...
