“When I was born, my mother was so horrified to be handed a female baby that she took three months to name me. My birth certificate just says ‘Gore Girl.'”… read more

Here Comes The Sun  maps a family’s struggle to gain independence and freedom in a world where both don’t come easy… read more

Humor and heart go hand in hand in Backcast, a new novel from writer Ann McMan… read more

A Wild Swan and Other Tales is a short story collection that offers contemporary renditions of popular fairy tales… read more

The Gap of Time is a decidedly queer “remix” of William Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, from celebrated author Jeanette Winterson…. read more

The book is an illuminating account of the lives of a group of New York City LGBTQ homeless youth… read more

“The night of Stonewall, two friends and I sat in Sheridan Square talking with the boys, trying to have a good time.”… read more

Door Girls is a humorously deadpan snapshot of a New York City nightlife denizen… read more

This month, NYRB Classics is re-releasing Sanford Friedman’s 1965 novel Totempole. The novel details the romantic relationship between its protagonist Stephen Wolfe and a male North Korean prisoner of war…. read more

“For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is in no way passive.”… read more