A poetic formalist who has close affinities with Thom Gunn, Mann’s breathtaking skill is every bit apparent in his latest collection of poems, Proprietary. … read more

Charles Jensen’s chapbook Breakup/Breakdown is about heartbreak and the trials and tribulations of romance… read more

Who Killed Piet Barol is part English Edwardian novel, part anthropomorphic fable, and part Dickensian yarn… read more

This work is terse, direct and skillfully crafted… read more

The British novelist, John Preston, gives us front row seats to the sensational 1979 trial of Jeremy Thorpe, Member of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party… read more

Steven Gaines’ poignant memoir of a gay boy growing up in New York City fits in the tradition of Philip Roth whose celebrated novels took on Jewish angst and sexual conflict in the Cold War age… read more

Cleve Jones’ memoir straddles both the demands of an intimate personal portrait of a gay man at the end of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, and an in-depth historical record of the LGBT movement in America… read more

These are dark poems, drawing on dramatic juxtapositions of beauty to ugliness, the sublime to the demonic, and the grotesque to the familiar… read more

This is a collection of quiet growth and beautiful transitory moments. Reichard is a silent Adam leading us through the fallen Eden of his past. He is the soft-spoken conscience of a lost world… read more

C. W. Gortner’s novelization of the life of Marlene Dietrich, the German stage and film actress who became a legend in American cinema, is a rollicking good read filled with intimate details of her tempestuous life … read more