A Window Into Joy: Jennifer Finney Boylan’s She’s Not There Jo Unruh Nonfiction April 8, 2021 8 min readSpring is here. An end to the pandemic draws nearer. We just celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility. In my personal...
Last Call is a Chilling Addition to the Gay Corner of the True-crime Genre Tom Cardamone Reviews March 13, 2021 2 min readLast Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York is a stunning addition to the...
1996 Allows Readers to Consider Key Moments from the 1990s Theodore Kerr Reviews November 24, 2020 4 min read1996 is a book, an art object, and a 24 year old time capsule, allowing readers in 2020 and beyond...
Wagnerism Grapples with Richard Wagner’s Complex Legacy Sophie Strohmeier Reviews November 24, 2020 9 min read“Are you peculiarly fond of Wagner?” — a query from a 1908 public questionnaire by gay writer Xavier Mayne, in...
No Modernism Without Lesbians Centers Lesbian Life in the Cultural Landscape of Modernism Anne Charles Reviews November 15, 2020 4 min readDiana Souhami’s deliberately provocative title points to the nature of her project: to place lesbian life and work prominently in...
In Figure it Out, Wayne Koestenbaum Offers a Queer Call to Action Alex Tunney Reviews July 30, 2020 2 min readFigure It Out is a collection of essays by Wayne Koestenbaum, with a “loopily expansive” cover designed by Michael Salu,...
Reading Samantha Irby is Like Hanging with Your Funniest Friend Molly Thornton Reviews June 8, 2020 3 min readHaphazard and aimless as she claims to be, Samantha Irby’s Wow, No Thank You is purposefully hilarious, real, and full...
Glitter Up the Dark Maps the Queer in Pop Dale Corvino Reviews May 23, 2020 4 min readGlitter Up the Dark, Sasha Geffen’s ambitious first book, presses the case that music invites the listener to identify across...
These Fevered Days Vividly Recreates the Texture of Emily Dickinson’s World Blaire Baily Reviews May 17, 2020 3 min read“Life is a spell so exquisite,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “that everything conspires to break it.” Martha Ackmann’s new book, These...
Grappling with the Complexities of Murder, Crime, and Community Edit Team Opinion April 28, 2020 7 min readThe following is excerpted from The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, the nonfiction debut...