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Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

Marian Crotty Shares How Her Queer Fiction Was Shaped by a Research Trip to South Dakota

By Marian Crotty | October 17, 2024

Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers

Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers

Jiaming Tang, Jessie Ren Marshall, Brittany Rogers, Alana Saab and Many More Reflect on Their Formative Texts

By Samantha Paige Rosen | June 7, 2024

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Mary V. Dearborn Remembers an American Literary Champion of the Outsider

By Mary V. Dearborn | February 28, 2024

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

in Fiction and Life">Hannah Meyer Considers the Power of Destructive Desire
in Fiction and Life

By Hannah Meyer | July 24, 2023

Ten LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Taught Them

Ten LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Taught Them

James Frankie Thomas, Amelia Possanza, Richard Mirabella, Gina Chung, and Many More Reflect on Their Formative Texts

By Samantha Paige Rosen | June 1, 2023

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“It Turned Out That It’s Possible.” Lejla Kalamujić on Being Openly Gay in Sarajevo

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 11, 2022

Obama Era Redux: Nawaaz Ahmed on Islam, Sexuality, Politics, and Publishing His First Novel

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 26, 2021

and D.H. Lawrence">Larry Kramer Talks Art, Activism,
and D.H. Lawrence

By But That's Another Story | October 22, 2018

The Newest Wave of Asian-American Writers You Should Know

The Newest Wave of Asian-American Writers You Should Know

Celebrating 15 Years of Kundiman

By Tamiko Beyer | October 5, 2018

Djuna Barnes:

Djuna Barnes: "The Most Famous Unknown of the Century!”

Nightwood">On the Queer, Modernist Classic Nightwood

By Ruth Joffre | June 18, 2018

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2017

Notes of a Crocodile

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin (trans. Bonnie Huie)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 1, 2017

Where Trans Bodies and Straight Fragility Meet

Where Trans Bodies and Straight Fragility Meet

What Belongs to You">On Public Bathrooms, Anti-Trans Policies, and What Belongs to You

By Joseph Osmundson | May 26, 2016