GENDER & SEXUALITY

The Case for Superman’s Queer and Kinky Underbelly

Superman encourages us to pursue reclamation and defer hopelessness through play, pleasure, and fleeting free moments....

MEG YOUNG

COMICS

GENDER & SEXUALITY

An Elusive Wish: A Conversation with Dennis Cooper

Daniel Spielberger speaks with Dennis Cooper about his new novel, “I Wished,” and the legacy of George Miles....

DANIEL SPIELBERGER

GENDER & SEXUALITY

White Feminism by Design

Marcie Bianco considers “The Trouble with White Women” by Kyla Schuller alongside a collection of new books examining white feminism....

MARCIE BIANCO

GENDER & 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 PAL

GENDER & 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 HARRIS

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Lean In Sexuality and the Labor of Self-Discovery

Sarah Stoller examines the commercialization of women’s sexual pleasure....

SARAH STOLLER

GENDER & SEXUALITY

The Shape of Premodern Nonbinarity: A Conversation with Leah DeVun

M. Buna speaks with Leah DeVun about their latest work, “The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance.”...

M. BUNA

GENDER & 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 HUSAIN

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Not Mad Enough

Updating a feminist classic, “The Madwoman in the Attic,” for the #MeToo era....

ELAINE MARGOLIN

GENDER & 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 PÉREZ

GENDER & SEXUALITY

A Guy’s Guy: Edmund White in the 1950s

Coming out as gay in the 1950s was a more complex process than we might imagine....

NICHOLAS F. RADEL

GENDER & SEXUALITY

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....

MICHAEL NAVA

GENDER & SEXUALITY

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....

MICHAEL NAVA

GENDER & 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. STERN

GENDER & SEXUALITY

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....

MICHAEL NAVA

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Placing Women at the Center: A Conversation with Honor Moore

The celebrated poet, memoirist, and feminist advocate discusses her life in the women’s movement....

NA ZHONG

GENDER & 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 ZOELLNER

GENDER & 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 ALDRIDGE

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Sex — and Everything Else

A new essay by Katherine Angel from the High/Low issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, No.29....

KATHERINE ANGEL

LARB LIT

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Looking for Another Party: The Missed Opportunities of Zak Salih’s “Let’s Get Back to the Party”

Joshua Gutterman Tranen on Zak Salih’s “Let’s Get Back to the Party” and the need for more nuanced portraits of the staggering sweep of modern gay life....

JOSHUA GUTTERMAN TRANEN

FICTION

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Documenting the Queer Latinx Ordinary: On Reynaldo Rivera’s “Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City”

Marcos Gonsalez on how Reynaldo Rivera’s documentary photos of queer Latinx Los Angeles emphasizes the power of the exuberant ordinary....

MARCOS GONSALEZ

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Flavors of Freak

From the bondage expert to the innocently curious, there’s something in “Kink” for everyone....

R. A. FRUMKIN

FICTION

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Writing Toward Communal Responsibility: A Conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

In “The Freezer Door,” Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore questions everything....

M. BUNA

GENDER & SEXUALITY

POETRY

On Digital Queerness: A Conversation with Chris Stedman

Matt Wille interviews Chris Stedman on the intersections between queerness, the internet, and the search for a real self....

MATT WILLE

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

GENDER & SEXUALITY

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