Edmund White’s Rimbaud is Superb.
I’ll admit I was a little nervous about this one. One of America’s great writers, Edmund White, has written a biography of one of France’s great poets–arguably the father of modern poetry–Arthur Rimbaud. Sounds intelligent. Sounds profound. Sounds…well, maybe just a little bit over my head. Frankly, I’ve always steered clear of Rimbaud. My French has never been [...]
One of Our Best: Arthur Leonard
Queer readers in New York City haven’t always had it so good. In the early nineteen-eighties, when local gay newspapers across the United States were thriving, New York City had no gay newspapers at all. And then it had The Native–Charles Ortlieb’s enigmatic, erratic weekly publication. While many fine writers wrote for it, reading The [...]