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The Price You Pay: Of Crimes and Closets
Michael Nava reads Katherine V. Forrest’s “Delafield” and explains why Forrest is an icon of lesbian fiction.
Michael Nava
Michael Nava is the author of a groundbreaking series of seven novels featuring a gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Nava is a six-time recipient of the Lambda Literary Award in the mystery category, as well as the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award for gay and lesbian literature.
Articles
Matter-of-Fact Fabulism: On Daniel A. Olivas’s “How to Date a Flying Mexican”
A magical collection of modern-day folktales by a master storyteller.
Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part III
Michael Nava looks at the current state of gay and lesbian publishing, moving from the late 1990s to the present, in this final installment of a...
Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part II
Michael Nava walks through the explosion of gay and lesbian publishing from 1980 to 1995, in this second installment of a three-part series for the...
Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part I
Michael Nava walks through the history of gay and lesbian publishing, from 1940 to 1980, in this first installment of a three-part series for the L.A...
A Sprawling Study Tracks the Global State of LGBT People
Michael Nava reviews Mark Gevisser’s “The Pink Line,” a study of LGBTQ struggles for civil rights across the world.
Monstre Sacré: The Life and Times of Franklin E. Kameny
Michael Nava reviews “The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America,” Eric Cervini’s exhaustive new history.
Big Lit Meets the Mexican Americans: A Study in White Supremacy
Latinx novelist Michael Nava considers the unbearable whiteness of publishing.
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