BY GARTH GREENWELL On the first page of Tatamkhulu Afrika’s intense and passionate novel, the narrator, Tom Smith, receives a package from a man he … [Read more...] about Tatamkhulu Afrika’s ‘Bitter Eden’: Book Review
Rabih Alameddine’s ‘An Unnecessary Woman’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Aaliya Selah, the irreverent, vibrant, hilarious, and fiercely solitary narrator of Rabih Alameddine’s brilliant new novel, has … [Read more...] about Rabih Alameddine’s ‘An Unnecessary Woman’: Book Review
Edmund White’s ‘Inside A Pearl: My Years In Paris’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Reading Edmund White’s fascinating, vital new memoir, which covers the fifteen years he spent in France in the 1980s and 90s, feels … [Read more...] about Edmund White’s ‘Inside A Pearl: My Years In Paris’: Book Review
Randall Mann’s ‘Straight Razor’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL The elegant, savage poems of Randall Mann’s excellent third collection are filled with the unglamorous stuff of daily life, from a … [Read more...] about Randall Mann’s ‘Straight Razor’: Book Review
Janette Jenkins’ ‘Firefly’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL This short, beautiful novel takes place over a brief period in 1971, as the British playwright and composer Noël Coward, in the … [Read more...] about Janette Jenkins’ ‘Firefly’: Book Review
Gengoroh Tagame’s ‘The Passion Of Gengoroh Tagame: Master Of Gay Erotic Manga’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL I tend to cover my eyes at horror movies, if I can’t avoid them altogether; I hate violence of all kinds; Law & Order has about … [Read more...] about Gengoroh Tagame’s ‘The Passion Of Gengoroh Tagame: Master Of Gay Erotic Manga’: Book Review
Jason K. Friedman’s ‘Fire Year’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL It’s not surprising that a collection centered on gay Jewish experience in the American South would be filled with outsiders. The … [Read more...] about Jason K. Friedman’s ‘Fire Year’: Book Review
David Levithan’s ‘Two Boys Kissing’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL A kiss is always a story. But the kiss at the heart of David Levithan’s ambitious, humane, extraordinarily moving new novel is … [Read more...] about David Levithan’s ‘Two Boys Kissing’: Book Review
Thomas Glave’s ‘Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL I was already deep into this essential collection of impassioned, incendiary essays when I read of the most recent instance of … [Read more...] about Thomas Glave’s ‘Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh’: Book Review
Duncan Fallowell’s ‘How To Disappear: A Memoir For Misfits’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL It’s hard to know how to describe this strange, appealing book, which recounts adventures—geographical, intellectual, … [Read more...] about Duncan Fallowell’s ‘How To Disappear: A Memoir For Misfits’: Book Review