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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It’s award season again. Time to take a fresh look at David Santos Donaldson’s Greenland. Were it simply a historical novel centered on the three years E.M. Forster spent in Alexandria, Egypt this novel would have been quite good.
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It’s hard to believe today, but when this website began fifteen years ago Queer Literature was defined almost exclusively as Gay and Lesbian. Times have certainly changed. And nowhere is this more apparent than in Rainbow Rainbow, Lydia Conklin’s
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In the nineteen-seventies, a generation of queers saw their reflection in the exuberant prose of Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance. In his new novel, Kingdom of Sand, Mr. Holleran explores nothing less than the nature of Queer
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Let’s face it. Short story collections often make for a choppy reading experience. Even the best of them are a challenge to read from cover to cover. Two magnificent exceptions are Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg Ohio and Patrick Ryan’s The Dream
Ethel Rosenberg did time here. So did Angela Davis and Afeni Shakur. Andrea Dworkin endured its notorious cavity search and, with the help of Grace Paley, publicized this barbaric practice. You won’t find their names on a plaque at the
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As homosexuality has become more and accepted, Queer Lit has the potential of becoming more and more conventional. Queer experiences in The United States–to use one example–are now mainstream. This is progress, but it also has the potential of making
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