Reviews Archives

January 20, 2013 3 min read

Food is, of course, the perfect metaphor for Walsh’s life: through much stumbling, there is a persistent desire to find the right dish, the perfect spice, the ingredient that brings it all together. Read More

‘Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Gay Cowboys’ by Barbara Mennel

Sarah Sarai

Nonfiction

January 16, 2013 4 min read

Queer Cinema situates the LGBT presence in movies and some TV within its social and historical milieu. Unsurprising and necessary are the many parallels author Barbara Mennel draws between the culture’s comfort level with queers and how we’re portrayed. Read More

‘H’ by Jim Elledge

Tony Leuzzi

Poetry Reviews

January 10, 2013 4 min read

When Walt Whitman declared, “Through me many long dumb voices . . . voices veil’d and I remove the veil,”...

‘Adaptation’ by Malindo Lo

Damian Serbu

Speculative Fiction

January 9, 2013 2 min read

If you had nightmares as a child, or still do as an adult, after watching Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, then...

‘Allen Ginsberg’ by Steve Finbow

Sarah Sarai

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 2, 2013 4 min read

I have heard rumors, lately, of a poet once of the City of New York named Ahron Grinsberg, no wait,...

‘Mina Borsalino Flips Out’ by Sara Marx

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

December 21, 2012 3 min read

If you’re looking for a heartwarming holiday story, Mina Borsalino Flips Out just might fill the bill. Although bearing an...

‘Far from the Tree’ by Andrew Solomon

Rachel Wexelbaum

Nonfiction Reviews

December 19, 2012 3 min read

In Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search For Identity (Scribner), psychologist Andrew Solomon poses a fundamental question: How do you nurture a child who is nothing like you? Read More

‘The Foundling Wheel’ by Blas Falconer

Walter Holland

Poetry

December 6, 2012 4 min read

The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books) is an apt title for this collection of poems, which reflect the revolving emotions...

‘Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me’ by Ellen Forney

Heather Seggel

Bio/Memoir Illustrated

November 18, 2012 2 min read

An association between artistic creativity and mental illness is something many of us take for granted without questioning which came first or why the two should be linked. In her new graphic memoir, cartoonist Ellen Forney tackles that question in light of its impact on her work as an artist with Bipolar I Disorder. Read More

“!”: Bookphile Seeks Free Book for Review, is Rewarded with Barry Webster’s ‘The Lava in My Bones’

TT Jax

Fiction Opinion

November 14, 2012 5 min read

"Literature is a documentation of our values, our flaws, our most strident and/or ridiculous aspirations- and the best literature truly pushes how we think of ourselves, of others, of consciousness and mortality and thinking itself." Read More

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

‘Licking the Spoon’ by Candace Walsh

‘Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Gay Cowboys’ by Barbara Mennel

‘H’ by Jim Elledge

‘Adaptation’ by Malindo Lo

‘Allen Ginsberg’ by Steve Finbow

‘Mina Borsalino Flips Out’ by Sara Marx

‘Far from the Tree’ by Andrew Solomon

‘The Foundling Wheel’ by Blas Falconer

‘Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me’ by Ellen Forney

“!”: Bookphile Seeks Free Book for Review, is Rewarded with Barry Webster’s ‘The Lava in My Bones’

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