Arts & Culture :: Books
'Wild With Happy' and 'Fat Ham' - onstage and in audiobooks
Major productions of two contemporary comedies with gay Black lead characters are being mounted in San Francisco this month. And in an unusual coincidence,...
Winter tales: Curl up to a quartet of queer fantasy books
Here are a handful of new queer and queer-adjacent titles from the Sci-Fi/Fantasy realm of fiction for those of you who like a bit of thrilling...
Lucy Sante's memoir, 'I Heard Her Call My Name'
Lucy Sante's memoir of transition (just published in paperback), is a cautionary tale on the perils of suppression and the joy of acceptance.
Words: Kara Zajac on 'The Significance of Curly Hair'
In Kara Zajac's memoir, "The Significance of Curly Hair: A Loving Memoir of Life and Loss," she shares the story of growing up with her grandmother and the bond...
Under the disco ball: Frank DeCaro's book documents the glittery, glamorous gay music era
In "Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania Under the Disco Ball," gay writer Frank DeCaro shares a stunning portrait of the cultural phenomenon that was central to...
Pop music and AIDS: The good, the bad and the silent in a long overdue history
Astonishingly, Matthew J. Jones "How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981–1996" is the first academic book on pop...
Elizabeth Harris' 'How to Sleep at Night' - Gay parenting & politics in debut novel
In her rollicking debut novel, New York Times reporter Elizabeth Harris delivers a dynamic cast of characters, gay and straight, working to reconcile their...
'The American No' - Rupert Everett's story & script collection's an unusual mix
Gay actor Rupert Everett has authored another book, "The American No," a collection of seven stories and a screenplay that seem perfectly calculated to...
'Accessing Parenthood' - new anthology shines a light on parents with disabilities
The new anthology book "Accessing Parenthood: Stories by and About Parents With Disabilities" calls attention to an often overlooked segment of the disabled...
Words: Elizabeth Costello's novel, 'The Good War'
Elizabeth Costello's debut novel "The Good War" masterfully weaves two intertwining stories, capturing the complexities of two women's lives, with lyrical prose...
'Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out' New expansive biography shares the author's full life
The acclaimed gay author of "Goodbye Berlin," the basis for the musical "Cabaret," and other books, is the subject of the new magisterial biography,...
'Mothers and Sons' - Adam Haslett's disturbing new novel
For those of us who consider the appearance of a new novel by Adam Haslett the equivalent of getting a new gospel, the authorial voice in "Mothers and Sons" is...
'Black Box: A Photographic Memoir' Dona Ann McAdams' intimate collection of stories and images
From urban protests to plaintive animal farm imagery, Dona Ann McAdams collection of photos and brief essays in "Black Box: A Photographic Memoir" offer a view...
'Hockney's Pictures' - More work by the master in a new book
"Hockney's Pictures" is an updated and expanded version of the volume from 2004, edited and with a minimum of texts by Andrew Brown, and packed with 522...