Jagose's latest project is a continuation of her study of how to separate sex from sexuality; her focus on the orgasm is born from her observation that this idealized "thing" has been accorded little critical thought in queer studies. Read More
Though not always elegantly executed—perhaps on purpose, as Cvetkovich indicates early on in the text—Depression succeeds at opening up a public discussion on certain kinds of depression that are often dismissed as trivial... Read More
What is compromised when one receives a graduate training?
What precisely do humanities students excel at? Abstract thinking, cerebral thought—not to mention a penchant for wildly obtuse language. None of these skills are easily translatable into careers outside academia. Read More
In Gaga Feminism (Beacon Press), J. Jack Halberstam makes a case for Lady Gaga to be considered in these terms for the potential of her masterful subversion of gender and sexual norms to bring about a possible “end of normal” altogether. Read More
"I was writing art essays, doing my job, but the concerns of high culture in circulation then had nothing to do with what was going on in the world. And this was very disturbing to me. To just continue what I was doing felt very collusive and weird."
The spirited iconoclast, novelist, art critic, and publisher Chris Kraus talked with Lambda Literary about her new novel, Summer of Hate, her involvement with publishing imprint Semiotext(e), and a recent foray into curatorial practice. Read More
Has the cultural critic become his own worst enemy? Has the eloquence he belabors to produce through his craft been...
A congratulations is in order for 2007 Lambda Literary Fellow Justin Torres who has just been announced as an honoree...
Contrary to what conservatives feared back in 2000 when he taught his first course at the University of Michigan titled “How to Be Gay”, David Halperin does not have a "Straight to Sissy in Five Easy Steps" method of indoctrinating youths into the gay lifestyle. How to Be Gay is not an instruction manual, nor is it a “learning to love yourself” self-help guide. Rather, Halperin’s book is an intervention against those who trumpet the “death of gay culture.” Read More
“The Closet” is an increasingly ill-fitting metaphor for queer men and women who wish to explore their sexuality outside of the two opposite states of either being “out” and having to confess their personal life aloud or being “closeted” and thus presumed to be living in shame or self-denial. It is this binary of being in or out of the closet that Nicholas De Villiers deconstructs in Opacity and the Closet... Read More
Judged solely by its title, Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press) could easily be dismissed by some as just another cynical...
