Book Review
What's the T?
A companion book to Juno Dawson’s earlier This Book Is Gay, What’s the T? takes a phrase from New York City’s 1980s drag ball scene that means “What’s the truth?” and uses it to unpack the joys, difficulties, and realities...
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From Gay to Z
In "From Gay to Z", a compendium of queer culture more akin to a kiki than an encyclopedia, Justin Elizabeth Sayre serves up a blend of earnest information and loving snark. A humorist rather than a historian or social scientist, Sayre...
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Digging to Wonderland
Propelled by an impulse to look back and take stock, the prose poems of David Trinidad’s intimate "Digging to Wonderland" twin memory and nostalgia. Conversational and confessional, the book has the tone of diary entries as it catalogs...
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Flights of Fancy
A book about flying that includes “all the different ways of defying gravity that have been discovered by humans over the centuries and by other animals over millions of years,” Richard Dawkins’s "Flights of Fancy" also includes...
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Vera Kelly Lost and Found
The third installment of the Vera Kelly mystery series, Rosalie Knecht’s "Vera Kelly Lost and Found" hits close to home as Vera travels the length and breadth of Southern California, fighting to recover her girlfriend and their future...
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The Swimmers
An observational tragicomedy that follows five days of a holiday weekend, Chloe Lane’s novel "The Swimmers" puts life’s unsparing absurdities on full display as a family tries to execute an illegal, life-terminating request. One year...
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The Second Half
A byproduct of questions about aging and a chance meeting turned interview-cum-photography session while vacationing on Patmos, Ellen Warner’s "The Second Half" is the culmination of fifteen years spent pursing older women’s...
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Art historian Sheila Barker’s biography of Artemisia Gentileschi presents the facts of Artemisia’s life, framing a narrative around why and how its events happened as they did. In a “visual contextualization of the lives and...