Finding My Way: A Conversation with Alden Jones
Dinah Lenney talks with Alden Jones about her latest book, “The Wanting Was a Wilderness.”
Gender & Sexuality
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith
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.
A Trans Boy Dreams of a Gender-Fluid World: A Conversation with Lexie Bean
A YA author discusses her new novel about transgender youth and social marginalization.
Unlearning a White American Dream: On Meredith Talusan’s “Fairest”
Michael Valinsky reviews Meredith Talusan’s memoir, “Fairest,” about growing up trans and albino in the Philippines and the United States.
A Progenitor of Second-Wave Feminism: On Selina Todd’s “Tastes of Honey”
Simon Lee reviews Selina Todd’s biography on British playwright Shelagh Delaney.
The Politics of Rediscovery
By always relegating work by women artists to the zone of the neglected or forgotten, we risk only understanding them in this way.
Double Lives: On Louise Brooks’s “Thirteen Women in Films”
Maya Cantu puts actress Louise Brooks’s unpublished manuscript “Thirteen Women in Films” in conversation with the recent documentary “Silent and Forgotten.”
On Dennis Cooper and Becoming-Nothing
Jonathan Alexander reviews "Wrong," the new biography of Dennis Cooper by Diarmuid Hester.
My Lockdown with “Death in Venice”
"The pandemic has made me, once again, that sorry thing: a mere spectator of life." D. A. Miller on social distancing and "Death in Venice."
Between Victories and Their Shortcomings: On Larry Kramer’s Sexual Politics
João Florêncio on reckoning with both Larry Kramer’s landmark HIV/AIDS activism and shortcomings.
A Stateless Woman: A Conversation with Ava Homa
Amy Reardon interviews Ava Homa about her debut novel, "Daughters of Smoke and Fire."
Recovering Queer Identities
Samuel Huneke explores Jen Manion’s “Female Husbands: A Trans History” and the ways in which we identify queer folx from the past.
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