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
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