by Natasha Dennerstein | Oct 10, 2022 | Book Reviews
Review: Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World Jasmine Sawers’ debut collection, The Anchored World, draws from the Bible, fairy-tales, folklore, Aesop’s Fables and many other sources for her atavistic, story-telling style. The journey-in-exile, the...
by Chad Koch | May 10, 2021 | Book Reviews
Review of Matthew Clark Davison’s Doubting Thomas What happens when a gay male teacher is accused of molesting his male 4th grade student by the boy’s parents? In Matthew Clark Davison’s debut novel, Doubting Thomas, this nightmare unfolds before Thomas...
by Miah Jeffra | Apr 8, 2021 | Book Reviews
Our Protections are Earthly: N/A Oparah’s Thick Skin To describe the basic premise of N/A Oparah’s highly metaphorical, lyrical novella, it would be familiar stuff: a young woman is dumped by her boyfriend, with most of the story following Nneka as she struggles,...
by Natasha Dennerstein | Apr 1, 2021 | Book Reviews
Acid-Wash Jeans and Handbag House Anthems: A Review of Randall Mann’s Stunning New collection A Better Life (Persea Press) Randall Mann is the author of four previous books of poetry, Proprietary, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the...
by Miah Jeffra | Oct 26, 2020 | Book Reviews
Not for the Faint of Heart: Tania De Rozario’s And the Walls Come Crumbling Down Tania De Rozario’s lyrical memoir opens with heartbreak, a woman whose lover has left the couple’s derelict Singapore apartment—due to frustration, perhaps a yearning for European...
by Everett Burge | Jun 25, 2020 | Book Reviews
Grief floods through Noah: A Review of Sim Kern’s Depart, Depart! When catastrophe strikes, our agency to determine where we shelter and who we associate with is deeply constrained, and for queer people, this loss of agency can prove dangerous. Sim Kern’s debut...