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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Edmund White’s new novel might be his sexiest yet. And that’s saying a lot. In A Previous Life, Ruggero, a Sicilian aristocrat, and his young wife, Constance, decide that in order to be totally honest with each other, they Edmund White’s New Novel is Witty, Wise and Very Sexy. Read More »
By now Queer Readers know of the sad story of Anthony Veasna So: how just months before the publication of his first book, Afterparties, he died suddenly of an accidental drug overdose. What’s missing from much of the press
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Alison Bechdel’s latest book is her most autobiographical and it’s also arguably her best. Once again, Ms. Bechdel takes a simple true story and fortifies it with insights and literary references which are both interesting and educational. The result is
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As the literary award season approaches, it’s time to revisit the novel that may well have changed Queer Lit forever. With The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr. shattered three assumptions about Queer Literature. The first and most obvious of these
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As much as Queer Reader enjoyed Richard Ellman’s Oscar Wilde biography, one finished it with the impression that certain parts of the the story weren’t completely fleshed out. Although all the important events were covered, the book lacked a certain
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Queer Reader approached Sarah Schulman’s latest book with some trepidation. As a veteran of ACT UP, this reviewer had grown tired of the misrepresentations, innaccuracies, and false narratives. As much as Queer Reader admired David France’s impeccably researched How to
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John Maynard Keynes is a somewhat awkward queer icon. In his youth he had numerous gay affairs and was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, but he ultimately married a woman: the Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova. Throughout his life, it
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Yesterday it was announced that Jericho Brown’s The Tradition won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Rarely has a collection displayed the depth and breadth of poet’s talent as well as this volume does. Blackness plays a big role in
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