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.

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

NOIR

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....

MICHAEL NAVA

FICTION

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 three-part series for the LA Review of Books....