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February 24, 2015 3 min read

Tweaky Village takes scrambled bits of pop culture, light, and color, and reassembles them into flickering lines that create, ultimately, a cohesive, captivating picture Read More

‘Don’t Let Him Know’ by Sandip Roy

Francisco Tirado

Fiction Reviews

February 22, 2015 3 min read

Sandip Roy’s Don’t Let Him Know is a multi-generational story venturing deep into the hidden pasts of a single family over the course of decades. Read More

‘Nights at Rizzoli’ by Felice Picano

Kevin Brannon

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 19, 2015 4 min read

The palimpsest of revolution and cosmopolitanism that overlays Picano’s recollections is of course utterly appropriate to the post-Stonewall years he describes Read More

LaShonda Katrice Barnett on Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes, the Black Press, and Her New Novel ‘Jam on the Vine’

Mel Morrow

Features Interviews

February 19, 2015 13 min read

"I wanted Jam to feel like a story, not a classroom, and a story where the hand of the writer is almost rendered invisible; this will always be the primary goal for my novels." Read More

‘Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee’ Edited by Michelle Parke

Alex Tunney

Nonfiction Reviews

February 18, 2015 3 min read

Whatever one may think of the quality of the show, it has made an imprint on popular culture and Queer in the Choir Room presents a number of takes on what exactly that imprint was Read More

‘Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity’ by Robert Beachy

Jennie Rathbun

Nonfiction Reviews

February 16, 2015 4 min read

This is an important book, and an impressive feat of scholarship drawing on nearly five hundred sources, with twenty-two pages of notes and sixteen pages of photographs. Read More

‘The Evening Chorus’ by Helen Humphreys

Julie R. Enszer

Fiction Reviews

February 14, 2015 4 min read

The power of The Evening Chorus is accumulation: a plot that unfolds at a comfortable pace, characters that feel usual, even ordinary, and thus interesting in their familiarity, and exquisite sentences Read More

New in February: Kevin Sessums, Lashonda Katrice Barnett, Kenny Porpora, and Carter Sickels

Edit Team

Features News

February 12, 2015 9 min read

New month, new books Read More

‘The God of Longing’ by Brent Calderwood

Christopher Soden

Poetry Reviews

February 11, 2015 3 min read

Understated, ironic and occasionally playful, Brent Calderwood's poems in The God of Longing are vivid and calm Read More

Chloe Caldwell: On Writing Her Novella ‘Women,’ Her Literary Inspirations, and Falling in Love With Queer Literature

Paige Cohen

Features Interviews

February 9, 2015 8 min read

"I think it’s so magical when you find some new kind of art, and once you start opening your eyes to it, you start seeing it everywhere." 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

‘Tweaky Village’ by Kevin Killian

‘Don’t Let Him Know’ by Sandip Roy

‘Nights at Rizzoli’ by Felice Picano

LaShonda Katrice Barnett on Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes, the Black Press, and Her New Novel ‘Jam on the Vine’

‘Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee’ Edited by Michelle Parke

‘Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity’ by Robert Beachy

‘The Evening Chorus’ by Helen Humphreys

New in February: Kevin Sessums, Lashonda Katrice Barnett, Kenny Porpora, and Carter Sickels

‘The God of Longing’ by Brent Calderwood

Chloe Caldwell: On Writing Her Novella ‘Women,’ Her Literary Inspirations, and Falling in Love With Queer Literature

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