By necessity, short story writers must craft details with precision, distilling a character into a few spot-on sentences. This is a skill well-honed in Jill McCorkle’s work, and although she plays with larger themes throughout the... Read More

Definition can be a wily beast, and from the outset of this compendium of essays, letters, and journals from gay men, editor David Bergman admits that creating the structure was challenging. After all, some of the authors in the... Read More

Some of the credit for Michael Montlacks lively, engaging collection has to go to Stevie Nicks-even though she and the editor havent met, and its possible that shell never read his ode to her power. Thats beside the point, however. For... Read More

A follow-up to the well-received Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing also edited by Raphael Kadushin "Big Trips" doesn’t suffer from sequel-itis that peculiar malady that can strike a sec-ond volume of a strong anthology. Rather than... Read More

Whether a lavish wreath is decorating a door for the holidays, or a simple bouquet is used as the centerpiece for a gathering of friends, flowers nearly always evoke emotion in those who see and smell them. With wreaths, there’s a... Read More

Raking over the ashes of a cold case is tantalizing for many detectives and journalists, even though that single, overlooked detail is rarely found. Yet Mardi Link’s look at a 1968 case is a stellar example of how a mystery, when well... Read More

The double standard has been around, it seems, since Adam and Eve. After all, they both took bites of the apple, but only one has taken a sound thrashing for it ever since. In her exploration of the double standards we see every day,... Read More

Despite the heap of travel memoirs and tourist guides that are published every year, intrepid travelers often find that the best way to get a deeper sense of a country is through its literature. Whether it’s well-loved classics or edgy... Read More