Feeling Married
License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples by Kimberly D. Richman New York University Press. 271 pages, $39. “License” can mean official permission to do…More
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July-August 2014
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Cryptic Plumage
Tiger Heron by Robin Becker University of Pittsburgh Press. 80 pages, $15.95 ROBIN BECKER is a well-established American poet and literary critic and professor at Penn State. Her…More
For the Love of Zines
Queer Zines and Queer Zines 2 Edited by AA Bronson and Philip Aarons Printed Matter, Incorporated 271 pages, $25. (vol. 1) 264 pages, $25. (vol. 2) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED…More
A Woman with a Plan
Daniel Schreiber, a Berlin-based journalist and critic, originally published this biography in Germany in 2007 as Susan Sontag: Geist und Glamour. Translated from the German by David Dollenmayer as Susan Sontag: A Biography, the book is for the most part an engaging and fascinating life story …
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A Life of Alternative Paths
THIS COMPREHENSIVE biography covers the life and writings of one of the best-known American novelists of the 20th century, from his birth and early life in St. Louis, Missouri, to his final years in Lawrence, Kansas.
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A Rocker from the Age of Punk
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad Cleis Press. 403 pages, $16.95 See a Little Light, titled after one of…More
Bright Lights, Dark Days
The title Hold Tight Gently comes from the section of poems about AIDS from [Essex] Hemphill’s unpublished manuscript Domestic Life.
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Slipping Beauty Past the Soviet Censors
In Cinema of Sergei Parajanov Steffen makes great use of the documentation surrounding Parajanov’s work, which includes all sorts of scripts and literary treatments, original texts that served as the basis for his films, official Communist Party letters and memos, and Parajanov’s speeches and interviews.
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A Voice You May Remember
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography By Richard Rodriguez Viking. 235 pages, $26.95 WHAT MANY LISTENERS remember about the commentaries that Richard Rodriguez delivered for years on the PBS Newshour…More
Choreographer David Roussève Is Out with Stardust
DAVID ROUSSEVE is artistic director and choreographer of Reality, a dance theater company that has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America. In addition, Roussève is professor…More