“We Can’t Go on Like Madonna”: A Conversation with Ricky TuckerZach Shultz talks with Ricky Tucker his new book, “And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community.”...ZACH SHULTZGENDER & SEXUALITY
Close to the Bone: On Eimear McBride’s “Something Out of Place”Annabel Barry on Irish novelist Eimear McBride’s nonfiction debut....ANNABEL BARRYGENDER & SEXUALITY
Beyond Abuse: Modeling Repair in Jonathan Alexander’s “Bullied”Will Clark parses trauma, memory, and queerness in a review of Jonathan Alexander’s “Bullied.”...WILL CLARKGENDER & SEXUALITY
A Politics of Stigma: On Heather Love’s “Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory”Samuel Clowes Huneke explores Heather Love’s critique of the origins and work of queer theory in “Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory.”...SAMUEL CLOWES HUNEKEGENDER & SEXUALITY
Three Recent Books about Trans Latinx LivesAnimating trans Latinx narratives and histories calls for a speculative mode....MARCOS GONSALEZGENDER & SEXUALITY
The Case for Superman’s Queer and Kinky UnderbellySuperman encourages us to pursue reclamation and defer hopelessness through play, pleasure, and fleeting free moments....MEG YOUNGCOMICSGENDER & SEXUALITY
An Elusive Wish: A Conversation with Dennis CooperDaniel Spielberger speaks with Dennis Cooper about his new novel, “I Wished,” and the legacy of George Miles....DANIEL SPIELBERGERGENDER & SEXUALITY
White Feminism by DesignMarcie Bianco considers “The Trouble with White Women” by Kyla Schuller alongside a collection of new books examining white feminism....MARCIE BIANCOGENDER & SEXUALITY
Our Choices Are Rarely Free: On Amia Srinivasan’s “The Right to Sex”A rigorous collection of essays that addresses a dizzying array of gender and sexuality discourses....SOHUM PALGENDER & SEXUALITY
The Secret History of Kindness: On Michael Nava’s “Lies with Man”Nava’s eighth Henry Rios mystery investigates the confluence of AIDS activism and Christian fundamentalism....MICHAEL HARRISGENDER & SEXUALITY
Lean In Sexuality and the Labor of Self-DiscoverySarah Stoller examines the commercialization of women’s sexual pleasure....SARAH STOLLERGENDER & SEXUALITY
The Shape of Premodern Nonbinarity: A Conversation with Leah DeVunM. Buna speaks with Leah DeVun about their latest work, “The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance.”...M. BUNAGENDER & SEXUALITY
Against White Publishing: The Limitations of Rafia Zakaria’s “Against White Feminism”Amber Husain on the promises and pitfalls of Rafia Zakaria’s “Against White Feminism.”...AMBER HUSAINGENDER & SEXUALITY
Not Mad EnoughUpdating a feminist classic, “The Madwoman in the Attic,” for the #MeToo era....ELAINE MARGOLINGENDER & SEXUALITY
A Lesson in Courage and Tenderness: On Krys Malcolm Belc’s “The Natural Mother of the Child”This memoir pushes readers to look deeper at what is natural, what is manmade, and what makes a man....EMILY PÉREZGENDER & SEXUALITY
A Guy’s Guy: Edmund White in the 1950sComing out as gay in the 1950s was a more complex process than we might imagine....NICHOLAS F. RADELGENDER & SEXUALITY
Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part IIIMichael 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....MICHAEL NAVAGENDER & SEXUALITY
Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part IIMichael 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....MICHAEL NAVAGENDER & SEXUALITY
Sex Work as (Anti)Work: On Heather Berg’s “Porn Work”Scott Stern reviews Heather Berg’s “Porn Work,” a new study that explores how labor functions — or doesn’t — within the adult film industry....SCOTT W. STERNGENDER & SEXUALITY
Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part IMichael 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....MICHAEL NAVAGENDER & SEXUALITY
Placing Women at the Center: A Conversation with Honor MooreThe celebrated poet, memoirist, and feminist advocate discusses her life in the women’s movement....NA ZHONGGENDER & SEXUALITY
He Loved Everyone in Trinidad: On Martin J. Smith’s “Going to Trinidad”A Colorado doctor put his town on the map for gender confirmation surgery. The town didn’t celebrate it....TOM ZOELLNERGENDER & SEXUALITY
Embracing the Break*Taylor Renee Aldridge on the “break” and finding the unexpected intersection of spiritual ecstasies in the pentecostal faith of her childhood and queer nightlife spaces....TAYLOR RENEE ALDRIDGEGENDER & SEXUALITY
Sex — and Everything ElseA new essay by Katherine Angel from the High/Low issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, No.29....KATHERINE ANGELLARB LITGENDER & SEXUALITY