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.
Michael Nava
Articles
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.
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 three-part series for the LA Review of Books.
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 LA Review of Books.
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. Review of Books.
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.
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