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Review: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Barnstorming fictions that detonate gender shibboleths.

Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novella, queer, Speculative, Trans writing, US

Review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

A ride we can’t get off.

Contemporary, Fiction, Man Booker prize, Novel, Space, US

Review: Both by Douglas Crase

Art as science, science as art.

Art, Biography, Botany, LGBTIQ, New York, Plants, queer, science, Taxonomy, US

Review: All Fours by Miranda July

In this fervid novel, a 45-year-old married woman sets out from Los Angeles for a holiday in New York after … More

Contemporary, Female writers, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, US

Review: The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger

Will make you see your house plants in a new light.

Botany, nature, Nonfiction, Plants, science, US

Review: Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Sin and salvation in 1930s Harlem.

African-American writers, Black writers, Classics, Fiction, New York, Novel, US

Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison

The power of words.

Black writers, Fiction, Historical, Nobel Laureate, Novel, Slavery, US

Review: The Selected Poems Of Frank O’Hara (edited by Donald Allen)

“Everything is in the poems,” Frank O’Hara writes in the manifesto that introduces this selection, in which he describes and … More

LGBTIQ, New York, Poetry, queer, US

Review: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Spartacus meets Never Let Me Go.

Black writers, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Prisons, Racism, speculative fiction, US

Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo

A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.

1980s, America, Fiction, Novel, speculative fiction, US

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