Casey McQuiston’s Bi4Bi Romance ‘The Pairing’ Is for Queer Hedonists Everywhere
The bisexual and trans romance is a delectable feast.
The Holocaust Doesn’t Exist in a Historical Vacuum
As Solomon J. Brager implies in their new graphic memoir, Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory, Holocaust memoirs have been part of our global literary culture since the end of World War II.
‘The Garden Against Time’ Asks, Who Gets To Live in Paradise?
I didn’t grow up knowing anyone who had a traditional garden. In South Florida, where the heat is relentless and the storms are unpredictable, it takes a special kind of person to dedicate themselves to the care and keeping of a flower garden.
‘All-Night Pharmacy’ Is a Bisexual Neo-Noir About Addiction, Psychics, and Intergenerational Trauma
In this fresh take on the mystery novel, what needs to be solved is not a murder — it’s not even a missing sister or the truth of a psychic — it’s how to move past cultural and familial trauma.
‘Carrie Carolyn Coco’ Isn’t Like Any Other True Crime You’ve Read
With her new book Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, Sarah Gerard forces us to reckon with ourselves and how we approach the world around us.
‘Why Are People Into That?’ Asks Incisive Questions About Kink
Tina Horn’s new book will challenge some of your problematic notions no matter how confident you are in your sex positivity.
‘Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous’ Is a Perfect Sapphic Second-Chance Summer Romance
For fans of second-chance romance, friends to lovers, and ‘celebrity falls for regular person’ tropes.
‘The Other Olympians’ Is Essential Reading Heading Into This Year’s Summer Olympics
It’s a fascinating and, oftentimes, frustrating exploration of how we got to where we are in both the sports and gender debate and the limitation of trans rights in general.
This Month, We Get Two Sapphic Romances Featuring Black Main Characters
I hope this means there will be more trad pubs looking to publish Black sapphic stories, because my bookshelf is ready.
‘Housemates’ Is a Remarkable Novel, Intimate, Expansive, and Full of Sight
It’s about seeing through images and seeing through words. It’s also a love story, about falling for the way another person sees the world, the magic of realizing someone sees in a way that is different than you yet insistently compatible.
‘Cactus Country’ Moves Beyond the Expected Borders of the Traditional Transition Memoir
Our stories don’t have to end where they start if we stay open to the potential around us.
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.
‘Love the World Or Get Killed Trying’ Is a Poetic Cry of Trans Loneliness
The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.
‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive
Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.
‘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.
A Hilarious Sapphic Road Trip Romance About Death and English Teachers
‘Here We Go Again’ by Alison Cochrun delights — despite dealing with death.
Maggie Nelson’s New Book Urges Us To Revel In the Art We Love
‘Like Love’ provides a creative and intellectual road map guiding us through many of Nelson’s influences, curiosities, and obsessions.
Queer Feminist Essay Collection Explores Horrors of Motherhood
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House is an ideal read for anyone interested in any one of its disparate themes: horror movies, queer parenthood, mental health, bisexuality, true crime, and more.
Bi4Bi Romance Thrives in This New Queer Regency-Era Rom-Com
Their romance also encapsulates the protagonist figuring out she’s a top, a journey I always love to see!
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.”