“Comfortable, rational, naturalistic stories that fit into what heterosexual people assume is the queer experience should not be the only things that are published.”… read more

“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

In The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity, author St. Sukie de la Croix uses the concept of mediocrity as a metaphor for a heteronormative life dictated by religion, patriarchy, and colonialism… read more

The Gift explores the concept of a novel-as-performance-art and the gauzy line between fiction and non-fiction… read more

Gallaway’s #gods is an ambitious, finely wrought novel that uses a variety of voices and innovative styles to explore issues of faith, religion, and connection in the modern world… read more

The Disintegrations is an engaging, enigmatic meditation on death that’s both conversational and humorous… read more

Cuba’s distinctive history and culture shape The Tower of Antilles with the unique negotiations with identity, memory and the idea of home that complicate the lives of the residents, exiles, and expatriates alike…. read more

This debut novel is many things all at once: It is a love story, a story of personal identity, and a story of family and community… read more

How to Survive a Summer follows the travails of a Mississippi preacher’s son, from his tumultuous youth to his existence as a growth-stunted grad student… read more

La Farge is wonderfully skilled at revealing the textured psychology of obsession, while making us as readers complicit… read more