Results for: book
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“Yerba Buena” Is the Perfect Book To Bask in This Summer
Yerba Buena accomplishes in one novel what Sally Rooney attempted in three. And I say this as an on-the-record devoted Rooney Tune!
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This Gay Ocean Horror Book Is So Good I Want To Scream
Our Wives Under The Sea is queer horror at its finest.
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‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive
Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.
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“The Fake” Is a Funny-Sad-Sexy Novel About the Psychological Damage Scammers Inflict
It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.
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Sexy, Ambitious Novel “Any Other City” Explores Transition and Transformation
I don’t remember ever reading such sexy queer sex.
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“People Collide” Throws Everything You Thought You Knew About Body Swap Stories out the Window
Isle McElroy’s new novel provides a nuanced approach to gender within its body swap premise.
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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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‘How it Works Out’ Imagines Many Madcap Alternate Universes of Queer Love
It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.
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Queer Desire Is Feral in K-Ming Chang’s Bloody, Spitty “Organ Meats”
Here is an expansive tale of inherited and constructed mythology, queer magic, and gothic girlhood.
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In ‘We Were the Universe’, Grief and Motherhood Are Horny
We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy over reality.
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“Alice Sadie Celine” Is a Delectable Queer Sex Novel With a Wicked Sense of Humor
If you’re less into slow-burn and more into the narrative equivalent of a wildfire, this one’s for you.
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“Yours for the Taking” Review: Matriarchy Won’t Save Us
The novel explores queer romance, corporate feminism, and reimagined community at the end of the world.
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In “City of Laughter,” a Story Doesn’t Have To Be Complete To Be Meaningful
Temim Fruchter’s debut novel is fueled by queer desire and queer investigation.
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“Dead in Long Beach, California” and the Inevitability of Grief
Venita Blackburn’s debut novel is a masterful feat of storytelling.
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“Big Swiss” Review: On the Queer Age Gap Novel Set in a House Full of Bees
Big Swiss veers from horny to humorous to macabre in zigs and zags.
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“Endpapers” Is a Glimpse Into One Artist’s Fight To Be Themselves
Set against the authoritarian backdrops of the McCarthy era and George W. Bush’s post 9/11 America, “Endpapers” asks: What happens when we stop trying to force ourselves to be something we’re not?
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“Your Driver Is Waiting” Review: I’m Obsessed With the Swole Bisexual Narrator of This Rip-Roaring Novel
Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.
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Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair
As a child, I wasn’t different because I was gay (that came with teenagehood), I was different because I was autistic.
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Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief
Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.
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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “The Death of Vivek Oji” Delves Into What Is Born in Death
Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates something entirely new in Vivek.