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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As Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Ramps Up in My Home State, I Find Myself Returning to This Book
It’s been a rough time to be a queer from Tennessee.
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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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Forsyth Harmon’s “Justine” Is a Haunting Book About Intense Teenage Friendship
This tiny book is a quiet horror story in which beauty is a terror and friendship is an undoing of the self. The final line has haunted me long past reading it.
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“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Is a Smart, Feminist Thriller – and Also a Very Cool F*cking Book
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” is a direct response to GamerGate… and a searing indictment of the political nightmare it foreshadowed.
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“Detransition, Baby” Is a Book For Trans Women — The Rest of You Are Lucky to Read It
“The truth is I don’t know how to review Detransition, Baby. Torrey was too successful in what she set out to accomplish. If trans women have been and remain her primary audience then I, a trans woman, don’t know what to say from a place of supposed objectivity. The fact that this is not a PDF free on her website but a hardcover book garnering an immense amount of buzz fills me with a joy I can explain and a terror I cannot.”
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Eight Awesome Queer Historical Fiction Books Like Tipping the Velvet
Queer historical fiction books full of the steaminess, lush historical detail, and drama of Sarah Waters’s iconic lesbian coming of age story Tipping the Velvet.
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“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers
There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.
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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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Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present
If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”
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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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Alison Rumfitt’s “Tell Me I’m Worthless” Is Fearlessly Honest About Modern Trans Life
In a time when so many popular examples of queer art have their edges sanded down, Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is all edge.
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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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“We’re a Surviving Sort of Species”: Venita Blackburn on Grief and How We Live With It
“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”
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“The Bruising of Qilwa” Review: A Trans and Queer Fantasy Novella That Packs a Punch
The short book by Naseem Jamnia is an extremely fast-paced, engaging read.
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Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
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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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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.