‘When the Sick Rule the World’ by Dodie Bellamy
Bellamy’s book is like rough sex: it is intense, dizzying, and often leaves you bruised, but beneath the glitter of sensation lies a foundation of tenderness
‘Love Not Given Lightly: Profiles from the Edge of Sex’ by Tina Horn
Love Not Given Lightly is compelling and oh-so-readable. Whether you know of and partake of this world or not, Horn’s portraits are deeply moving in their tender look at human sexuality and connection.
‘The Argonauts’ by Maggie Nelson
The Argonauts, a slim book by poet and critic Maggie Nelson, contains multitudes. It’s an appreciation of her favorite queer thinkers. It’s a chronicle of first-time motherhood. It’s also the best kind of nonfiction read, the kind that enlarges one’s reading list by half.
‘Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity’ by Robert Beachy
This is an important book, and an impressive feat of scholarship drawing on nearly five hundred sources, with twenty-two pages of notes and sixteen pages of photographs.
‘There Goes the Gayborhood?’ by Amin Ghaziani
Proper punctuation is critical to
‘Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire’ by Amy Villarejo
What we see on the
‘Gender Failure’ by Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon
Gender Failure is not a simple Trans 101 lesson, rather this book offers a far more compelling story that brings readers to the hotel rooms, kitchen tables, and inner lives of Rae and Ivan.
‘Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Papers in America’ edited by Tracy Baim
Is there still a place for LGBT community newspapers in the world of social media? Tracy Baim’s edited volume Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Papers in America provides a history of the LGBT press, but no easy answers as to its future.
‘The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting’ by Philip Hensher
The Missing Ink, is very much concerned with the loss of individuality and character—a sad phenomenon that has been brought about by, among other things, the dominance of the keyboard.
