Read an Excerpt from Ann McMan’s New Novel ’Backcast’
Humor and heart go hand in hand in Backcast, a new novel from writer Ann McMan
‘Fox Tooth Heart’ by John McManus
John McManus’s new collection Fox Tooth Heart is a gripping, often tragic meditation on the vast distance between inner life and outer expectations
Ten of This Year’s Standout LGBTQ Books
It was truly a year of queer literary excellence
‘The Uncollected David Rakoff’ by David Rakoff
David Rakoff was here. He made us laugh, he made us weep, he made us think. The Uncollected Works are some of his best and some of his not-so-best, but they are all him and as such, to be cherished
‘The Repercussions’ by Catherine Hall
The Repercussions does not try to explain war, nor does it try to call us to action. It is simply a chronicle of the ways human beings mess each other up and what it takes, on an individual level, to keep on living
Michael Graves: On Writing, Relationships, and Practicing Hope
“[…] People are scared to talk about religion. They are less fearful of discussions concerning sex or guns. Why don’t we talk about God? Why don’t we talk about spirituality?”
‘A Poet of the Invisible World’ by Michael Golding
In A Poet of the Invisible World, we’re asked to consider the curative role of art and how experience–often painful–can bring us to a deeper understanding of life
Read an Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson’s New Novel ‘The Gap of Time’
The Gap of Time is a decidedly queer “remix” of William Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, from celebrated author Jeanette Winterson.
‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ by Bill Clegg
In this novel, fifty year old June Reid is faced with the irreconcilable deaths of every person in her family—a fate she was spared from by pure happenstance
A Queer Look at Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City On Fire’
The book stretches broad enough to embrace many narratives, a compelling gay narrative among them
