*Lesbian Archives

June 22, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Emma Pérez’s new novel Forgetting the Alamo, or Blood Memory powerfully presents a revenge tale from an...

‘Murder in City Hall’ and ‘The Seeker’

Andrea L.T. Peterson

Romance

June 17, 2010 1 min read

Facing a shelf full of romance novels can be daunting. It’s hard to determine what is great, what is good,...

‘The Little Stranger’ by Sarah Waters

Susan Stinson

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction

June 15, 2010 2 min read

Even simply listing the names of Sarah Waters’s previous novels causes a little rise of excitement which is a visitation...

Five New Queer Voices To Watch Out For

Courtney Gillette

Features

June 14, 2010 5 min read

Last month, hundreds gathered for the 22nd annual Lambda Literary Awards, where queer authors—some new, some well established—were honored for...

‘The Mirror And The Mask’ by Ellen Hart

Victoria Brownworth

Mystery

June 3, 2010 1 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Perennial mystery-award and Lambda Award winner Ellen Hart has long been a favorite of mine. Her mysteries...

‘Command of Silence’ by Paulette Callen

Victoria Brownworth

Mystery

June 3, 2010 1 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Command of Silence by Paulette Callen comes from the Katherine Forrest Selection line of Spinster’s Ink. Which...

‘Missing Lynx’ by Kim Baldwin

Victoria Brownworth

Mystery

June 3, 2010 1 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Missing Lynx is the latest in the Elite Operatives thriller series by Kim Baldwin and Xenia...

‘Of Course It’s Murder’ by Kate Sweeney

Victoria Brownworth

Mystery

June 3, 2010 1 min read

Who doesn’t like a cozy? Kate Sweeney has taken the genre to her literary bosom. The latest in her Kate...

‘Palimpsest’ by Catherynne M. Valente

Meredith Schwartz

Reviews Speculative Fiction

June 3, 2010 1 min read

Lambda Award Winner Palimpsest limns a city that is literally written on the body – a sexually transmitted geography, whose...

Lesbian Mystery Roundup: May 2010

Victoria Brownworth

Mystery

June 2, 2010 1 min read

With summer just around the corner, we need beach reading. Since I was a child, beach reading has meant mysteries....

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

Matthew Gallaway: On His New Novel and Finding a Different Kind of Faith

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

‘Forgetting the Alamo, or Blood Memory’ by Emma Pérez

‘Murder in City Hall’ and ‘The Seeker’

‘The Little Stranger’ by Sarah Waters

Five New Queer Voices To Watch Out For

‘The Mirror And The Mask’ by Ellen Hart

‘Command of Silence’ by Paulette Callen

‘Missing Lynx’ by Kim Baldwin

‘Of Course It’s Murder’ by Kate Sweeney

‘Palimpsest’ by Catherynne M. Valente

Lesbian Mystery Roundup: May 2010

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