‘The Heart’s Invisible Furies’ by John Boyne
I can’t recall in recent years a more ambitious gay novel with such historical scope as John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies. Larry Kramer’s The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart...
View Article‘The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America’ by Isaac...
Isaac Butler and Dan Kois have crafted an extensive oral history of the making of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America that is ingenious by design. Much like a play script itself, the book is structured in...
View Article‘Lowly’ by Alan Felsenthal
Alan Felsenthal in Lowly shows a strong affinity toward previous generations of Language poets, especially the work of Susan Howe. As the critic Stephen Paul Martin states in regards to Howe: “We are...
View Article‘Seed’ by David Eye
With Seed, the poet David Eye moves the reader back and forth from the rural to the urban, from the past to the present, from Virginia to New York, and affords us a hardscrabble look at growing up...
View Article‘Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay...
The June 24, 1973 arson of the gay bar the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans was apparently an act of revenge, allegedly perpetrated by a ne’er-do-well, small-time crook and alcoholic gay hustler named...
View Article‘Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution’ by Stephen S. Mills
Stephen S. Mills’ Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution is an interesting exercise in historical contrasts. He approaches his poems as though they were chapters in two parallel and interwoven...
View Article‘When Brooklyn Was Queer’ by Hugh Ryan
When opening Hugh Ryan’s provocative and fascinating history, When Brooklyn Was Queer, I felt an air of excitement that I hadn’t felt since first reading George Chauncey’s groundbreaking Gay New York:...
View Article‘Who Killed Piet Barol?’ by Richard Mason
Mason’s novel is a story of hidden identities and deception. It is also a story about two worlds and two vastly different modes of being. One is the “civilized” society of white colonial South Africa...
View Article‘Breakup/Breakdown’ by Charles Jensen
Charles Jensen’s chapbook Breakup/Breakdown is about heartbreak and the trials and tribulations of romance. It is a very honest book and a departure from his previous work, which tends more toward the...
View Article‘Proprietary’ by Randall Mann
Born in 1972, Randall Mann came of age in the 1980s and 1990s. A poetic formalist who has close affinities with Thom Gunn, his breathtaking skill is every bit apparent in his latest collection of...
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