Steve Susoyev Archives

July 25, 2019 13 min read

James tempts us to believe just about anything we want to believe, then shows us that people have succumbed to this seduction throughout Capri’s history. Read More

‘Everything in Its Place: First Loves & Last Tales’ by Oliver Sacks

Steve Susoyev

Reviews

June 12, 2019 12 min read

This second and final posthumous collection of Oliver Sacks's unpublished and uncollected essays was worth waiting for. Read More

‘Some Hell’ by Patrick Nathan

Steve Susoyev

Reviews

March 12, 2018 7 min read

Patrick Nathan's debut novel declines to conform to the rules of any established literary category. Read More

‘David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music’ by Darryl W. Bullock

Steve Susoyev

Nonfiction

December 10, 2017 14 min read

Bullock has reached beyond his own generation and managed to create an entertaining, thoroughly researched cultural resource Read More

‘Murder Under the Fig Tree’ by Kate Jessica Raphael

Steve Susoyev

Mystery

October 24, 2017 7 min read

Murder Under the Fig Tree is a suspenseful, complex, and politically charged murder mystery Read More

‘The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir’ by Peter Gajdics

Steve Susoyev

Nonfiction

April 25, 2017 9 min read

The term “homosexual reparative therapy” conjures, for many of us, images of wrathful, bible-thumping parents dragging a 16-year-old into a...

‘Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts’ by Robert Hofler

Steve Susoyev

Reviews

April 16, 2017 13 min read

Hofler has spent a good deal of time exploring Dominick’s personal journals and letters, and has produced, amidst the juicy dish, a distinguished biography of a brilliant and complex man Read More

‘Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me’ by Bill Hayes

Steve Susoyev

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 14, 2017 13 min read

Bill Hayes has managed to tell his own moving story and to include Oliver Sacks, his partner of seven years, as a very active character but not the exclusive focus Read More

‘Murder Under the Bridge’ by Kate Jessica Raphael

Steve Susoyev

Mystery Reviews

January 13, 2016 4 min read

Murder Under the Bridge is a complex murder mystery, a chaotic police procedural, and a juicy clandestine lesbian romance Read More

‘The Deceitful Heart : The Cult of JT LeRoy’ Directed by Marjorie Sturm

Steve Susoyev

Film Opinion

July 15, 2015 8 min read

The film’s title is apt: In cults, intelligent people have been known to suspend rationality in order to believe something that does not make sense 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

The Queerness of Robots

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

‘Pagan Light: Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri’ by Jamie James

‘Everything in Its Place: First Loves & Last Tales’ by Oliver Sacks

‘Some Hell’ by Patrick Nathan

‘David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music’ by Darryl W. Bullock

‘Murder Under the Fig Tree’ by Kate Jessica Raphael

‘The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir’ by Peter Gajdics

‘Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts’ by Robert Hofler

‘Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me’ by Bill Hayes

‘Murder Under the Bridge’ by Kate Jessica Raphael

‘The Deceitful Heart : The Cult of JT LeRoy’ Directed by Marjorie Sturm

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