ALONGSIDE THE NOW COMMON postcolonial readings of The Tempest, one of the most enduring understandings of Shakespeare’s play relies on the belief that Prospero, that studied and callous magician, is a stand-in for the Bard himself. From the moment ...

ABOUT A DECADE AGO, in my early 20s, I forged close friendships with queer people of older generations for the first time. Drag queens who had been at ACT UP demonstrations, an older lesbian couple who had haunted the same Michigan ...