Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding's anthology contains essays that will not only inform and provoke us, but that will strengthen our collective resolve. Read More
No One Can Pronounce My Name is a nuanced examination of what it means to be an outsider in contemporary America. Read More
Both a collection and a journey, Desert Boys maps new ground in contemporary queer fiction Read More
In A Poet of the Invisible World, we’re asked to consider the curative role of art and how experience--often painful--can bring us to a deeper understanding of life Read More
Mistakes come in all shapes and sizes. Some, like the one Rem Gunnersen makes when he kidnaps a customer’s dog...
Novels about war, like novels about all-boys schools, are usually as much about male bonding as they are about war or growing up. In this regard, Tatamkhulu Afrika’s Bitter Eden, which is set in a series of WWII POW camps, fits the mold. Read More
"If you stumble upon negative comments concerning your body or your personality, remember that the online universe equalizes every utterance, and that negative or humiliating comments concerning your body or your personality weigh no more than a feather. Imagine the feather blowing away."
Poet, critic, and author Wayne Koestenbaum took some time to talk with Lambda about the process of writing about humiliation, Harpo Marx, and how poetry informs his cultural criticism. Read More
That Wayne Koestenbaum is a formidable talent is evident within the first few pages of his short book of literary criticism,Humiliation (Picador). In it, Koestenbaum thinks through the concept of humiliation in many different contexts, personal and political. What emerges is a poetic and often profound theoretical work of both academic and cultural import. Read More
“In a curious way, we are what we read, much more than we are what we eat.” Scottish author Jackie...
How beautiful the turning of the year! If, like many of us, you made a resolution to read more books...
