This second and final posthumous collection of Oliver Sacks’s unpublished and uncollected essays was worth waiting for…. read more

Fashion Climbing is both refreshing and surprising. For any of us who don’t think much about fashion, the book is a revelation… read more

Patrick Nathan’s debut novel declines to conform to the rules of any established literary category…. read more

Bullock has reached beyond his own generation and managed to create an entertaining, thoroughly researched cultural resource… read more

The Oliver Sacks Foundation has now released Sacks’s first posthumously published book. There’s much to celebrate here… read more

Murder Under the Fig Tree is a suspenseful, complex, and politically charged murder mystery … read more

In The End of Eddy, a young gay writer takes us to his home village, a hotbed of right-wing, homophobic discontent in Northern France… read more

The term “homosexual reparative therapy” conjures, for many of us, images of wrathful, bible-thumping parents dragging a 16-year-old into a church basement for an exorcism, or into a grim clinic for genital electroshock treatments…. read more

Hofler has spent a good deal of time exploring Dominick’s personal journals and letters, and has produced, amidst the juicy dish, a distinguished biography of a brilliant and complex man… read more

Bill Hayes has managed to tell his own moving story and to include Oliver Sacks, his partner of seven years, as a very active character but not the exclusive focus… read more