REVIEW: What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, Edited by Michele Filgate June 10, 2025 Perhaps I was foolish to review this beautiful collection—my father died when I was 14, and the weight of what he and I can’t talk about is ever-present…. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin May 6, 2025 Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement… Read the full story →
REVIEW: Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant… and Completely Over It by Lester Fabian Brathwaite April 10, 2025 Lester Fabian Brathwaite inhabits an intersection — a mother lode of bias — where racism, homophobia, ableism, and xenophobia collide. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez March 10, 2025 In seven sentences, just seventy-six words, I am haunted by my 1987 coming out moment. Read the full story →
REVIEW: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White January 11, 2025 I wasn’t expecting to laugh and learn my way through something subtitled A Sex Memoir. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song December 11, 2024 Hyeseung is a first-generation American, born to Korean immigrant parents, and struggled with the unique culture shock that can result…. Read the full story →
REVIEW: The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt September 10, 2023 The memoir in essays examines how media and celebrities impact perceptions of same-sex desires and identity. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Without Saints: Essays by Christopher Locke June 6, 2023 I could feel the first pages viscerally, the looming evil of a destructive faith present in the author’s youth as it had been in mine. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Halfway From Home: Essays by Sarah Fawn Montgomery December 19, 2022 An artful variation of essay forms and poetic language mark this artfully written collection. Read the full story →
REVIEW: The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications by Aaron Angello October 10, 2022 Each of the words in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 becomes a prompt for the entries in this collection of short prose pieces. Read the full story →