As this country again focuses on its endemic violence, David McConnell’s book couldn’t have arrived at a more apt time....
"[...]with Facebook, Pinterest, with other online modes, blogging....We are catching things [in the news and on the web] and passing them along. What I'm showing is how the past comments on, and is related to, what we're doing now."
Scholar and writer Ellen Gruber Garvey talks with Lambda Literary about her new book, Writing With Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, being a lesbian academic, and bringing hidden histories to light. Read More
A seemingly inexhaustible mix of talent, genius, exuberance, and mischievousness, this is the Bernstein that leaps off the page in Dinner with Lenny (Oxford University Press). Read More
Cobra Killer (Magnus Books) details (and I do mean details) the murder of amateur porn impresario Bryan Kocis by self-identified...
The editors have collected essays from a diverse group of gay writers on the people who have inspired them, from literary heroes to those closer to home—including, in more than one case, an actual daddy. Read More
Matias Viegener's 2500 Random Things About Me, Too may be an answer to that question of what we do with our powers of digital text and connection. As our brains rewire, immersed in the great weirdness of cut-n-paste cyber space, social networks, and 24/7 technological tethers, perhaps we can take the engineering constraints of the mediums to make profound and shockingly intimate art. 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
The first line of Urvashi Vaid’s new book Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (Magnus...
In a few weeks, Minnesotans will vote on whether or not to approve an amendment to the state constitution which...
What makes Communists and Perverts Under the Palms a penetrating read is not only its chronicling of a microcosm of the fight against civil rights, but its implications for how that fight is still by waged by cultural conservatives today. Read More
