Max Hovey's "No Fats, No Fems" challenges queer communities to examine the prejudice within. A candid, thought-provoking debut worth reading.
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The truth about being queer in the 90s can’t be found in a history book
My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan is a reckoning with the reality…
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In ‘Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You,’ falling apart is just the beginning
Julián Delgado Lopera's Spanglish novel follows a travesti father and his teenage daughter through grief, curses, and chosen family in…
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What the water holds in Jesmyn Ward’s ‘On Witness and Respair’
Jesmyn Ward's debut essay collection is luminous and at times repetitive, but essential reading on Black Southern life.
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Before ‘Cabaret,’ Liza Minnelli won a Tony for a flop. And she never forgot the lesson
Long before nepo babies became de rigueur, Liza Minnelli was navigating life in the spotlight. The daughter of Judy Garland…
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In ‘John of John,’ Douglas Stuart returns to familiar and fertile territory
Douglas Stuart's “John of John” delivers a quietly devastating portrait of a father and son who struggle to tell their…
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Book review: Isabel Klee let every dog in. Love took longer
A warm, funny memoir that sneaks up on you and actually earns the tears.
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Bob Spitz’s ‘The Rolling Stones: A Biography’ turns six decades of mythology into something better: the truth
Front row, backstage, and inside the legend. Bob Spitz's 'The Rolling Stones: The Biography' is 704 pages you won't put…
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In ‘Small Town Girls,’ Jayne Anne Phillips leaves West Virginia then writes her way back
In her new essay collection 'Small Town Girls,' Pulitzer Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips turns a West Virginia childhood into…
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New biographies bring Judy Blume and Toni Morrison down to earth
Two new books revisit Toni Morrison and Judy Blume with clarity, honesty, and a closer look at their work and…
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