The ingenious title of Brian J. Robinson’s memoir reflects the author’s struggle to deal with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—hence the alternative spelling of mad. But the pages of this autobiography also reveal a mad... Read More

"Last of the Gnostics" is based upon the story of the Cathars, early Gnostics who believed in the “nous” or spiritual mind that connects all through consciousness. According to the author, who considers himself a fifth level Old Soul... Read More

In the early 1600s, in the beginning of the Edo period in Japan, nearly all suitable land had been opened to cultivation; soils were beginning to exhaust and forests were showing substantial signs of degradation. The population was 12... Read More

"The Lost Library" is a celebratory and poetic collection written for passionate readers by some of today’s emerging gay literati. In his own contribution, a reminiscence on Douglas Sadownick’s 1994 novel, Sacred Lips of the Bronx,... Read More

“How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing,” said the British Prime Minister Neville... Read More

“I exist. It’s sweet so sweet so slow…” —Jean Paul Sartre In Sartre’s novel Nausea protagonist Roquentin cannot enjoy experiences that once gave him pleasure because he cannot find meaning in existence. Roquentin is... Read More

“I felt very much the outcast. I was poor Hispanic gay and HIV positive” Ruben Bailey confesses in In the Course of a Dream: Emanuel for Love. He wears his oppressive background sexual orientation and affliction like a stigmata. Like... Read More

“What attracts men and offends women is that there are no feelings in Malenglish” Lewis’ protagonist Chuck Evans explains. That’s because it’s how men talk to men when no one else is around. Maneglish is a kind of... Read More