The traumas and triumphs of a former Mormon’s coming-out story are given theatrical accouterments in AJ Romriell’s memoir "Wolf Act". Ensconced in the ruse of a screenplay, the memoir recounts Romriell’s arduous Mormon upbringing.... Read More
For queer Latinx Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, raised in El Paso by Mexican immigrants, piecing together a suitable cloak of masculinity is as much about survival as it is identity. His brother’s detainment and deportation serves as a... Read More
Tragedy strikes a dysfunctional Turkish German family in Fatma Aydemir’s searing novel "Djinns". Hüseyin worked hard his entire life so he could bring his family back to his homeland in style. He dies only a week after accomplishing... Read More
Camara Lundestad Joof’s piercing memoir I Talk about It All the Time concerns the particularities of systemic racism in Scandinavia. Joof, who is a queer Black Norwegian Gambian woman, writes in Nynorsk—“the much less used of two... Read More
In Barbara Ridley’s gripping novel "Unswerving", a woman survives a car accident and contends with emotional trauma, harrowing rehabilitation, and a mystery surrounding the fate of her girlfriend. Tave, once a top athlete at her... Read More
In her candid, inspirational memoir "The Only Way Through Is Out", Suzette Mullen traces the events leading to her midlife coming out—and her decision to leave her marriage, choosing “desire over safety.” As an empty-nester, while... Read More
In Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s expansive short story collection, some form of craving—either literal or metaphysical—factors into every person’s tale. A woman who craved olives as a child is forever cursed to flashback through the... Read More