Katharine Bucknell’s new Isherwood biography is the most important non-fiction book QueerReader has reviewed so far. Because of his background, education, talents and personality, Christopher Isherwood was uniquely positioned to meet most of the important queer authors of the twentieth
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With all the excitement over the up and coming queer authors of our time–Ocean Vuong, Lydia Conklin, Douglas Stuart, David Santos Donaldson, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Edward Cahill, to name just a few–it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that many
Let’s get this out of the way: Disorderly Men is an astonishingly good debut novel. But even this sentence doesn’t do it justice. Because the term “debut novel” implies something that is not quite complete—a good first try. Edward Cahill’s
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It’s been forty-one years since Edmund White got the world’s attention when A Boy’s Own Story broke the New York Times bestseller list. The simple fact that a literary queer novel could sell transformed the publishing business forever. Perhaps less
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