thriller Archives

June 21, 2021 3 min read

With their suggestive titles and gorgeous, pink-suffused covers, P. J. Vernon’s Bath Haus and Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s Yes, Daddy seem like...

Bisexual Private Investigator Roxane Weary Returns in Once You Go This Far

Anne Laughlin

Reviews

July 31, 2020 4 min read

It’s some kind of genius to give a private investigator the last name of Weary. It fits so snugly with...

Sexy, Historical Noir ‘The Best Bad Things’ Challenges 19th Century Gender Roles

John Copenhaver

Fiction

February 26, 2019 2 min read

Carrasco’s main character, Alma Rosales, is a detective who now works under the identity Jack Camp, searching out leaks in a thriving opium smuggling ring Read More

‘Long Black Veil’ by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Dawn Robinson

Fiction

May 27, 2017 2 min read

Long Black Veil shifts focus from the past to the present as a group of college friends become involved in a harrowing, inexplicable disappearance at a ruined Pennsylvania prison 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

Page-Turning Thrillers, Bath Haus and Yes, Daddy, Expose Power Dynamics Between Gay Men

Bisexual Private Investigator Roxane Weary Returns in Once You Go This Far

Sexy, Historical Noir ‘The Best Bad Things’ Challenges 19th Century Gender Roles

‘Long Black Veil’ by Jennifer Finney Boylan

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