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.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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....
A Great Spirit Trapped in a Tiny Life: On Cherríe Moraga’s “Native Country of the Heart”
Michael Nava visits “Native Country of the Heart,” a new memoir from Cherríe Moraga....
The Violence Before Pride: On James Polchin’s “Indecent Advances”
Michael Nava looks at James Polchin’s "Indecent Advances," a queer history drawn from the annals of the early 20th-century criminal justice system....
Cruising for Sex, Cruising the Political: Alex Espinoza’s “Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime”
Michael Nava reviews Alex Espinoza’s “Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime.”...
Gay Noir Pioneer
Michael Nava surveys the career of gay crime novelist Joseph Hansen....
