The wisdom of "Awakening Together" is contained in its title, namely that any liberation we experience cannot be fully expressed alone.

Here are some books that we're looking forward to reading, assigning to review, or both this coming year.

Jerry Oppenheimer flashes his laser pointer across the throne of the Kardashian dynasty and lets the glitter fall where it may in "The Kardashians: An American Drama."

"The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris" pans back from a jet-setting chronicle blurring the boundaries of Paris, New York, Haiti, Amsterdam, and New Orleans.

Unsure what to get readers on your holiday gift lists? Following are suggestions that may help you find the right tome.

The year turned into an avalanche of superb LGBT nonfiction comparable to the torrent of stand-out LGBT fiction in 2016. Much of it bent genres as well as genders.

The B.A.R. interviewed"Call Me By Your Name" author Andre Aciman by email.

The following recommended titles are by LGBTQ authors in the fiction, poetry and nonfiction genres.

Fans of the films of noted sexographer Arch Brown will pounce upon the memoir he modestly titled A Pornographer.

Julia Balen's new book is "A Queerly Joyful Noise: Choral Musicking for Social Justice."

Lesbian author Carmen Maria Machado's debut story collection is "Her Body and Other Parties."

Rania is the Palestinian detective at the beating heart of Kate Raphael's "Murder Under the Fig Tree."

The life of actor Roger Rees can be said to have been a blockbuster.

Books are the most extraordinary things. They let you into other people's lives.