As the title suggests, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is partly a “how to” guide and also partly memoir–a portrait of Alexander Chee as he moves through the world as a politically engaged queer artist… read more

Anne Raeff’s Winter Kept Us Warm is a profound success that manages to take its place in the canon of excellent war literature while also maintaining a kind of magical surreality…. read more

Love at Cooper’s Creek is an engaging tale with just the right mix of tension, pleasure and variety of interactions to delight the reader… read more

Jeanne Thornton’s book of short stories, The Black Emerald, is fantastic, meaning both that it’s very good, and also that it’s really weird… read more

Susan X Meagher has long been a go-to author for lesbian romance readers who enjoy layered stories with excellent character development, and Vacationland does not disappoint in either of these respects… read more

Starla Martin, the sardonic narrator of Amber Dawn’s second novel, Sodom Road Exit, is a twenty-something college dropout with a penchant for pricey art, designer clothes, and one-night stands…. read more

Carrie Smith’s third Claire Codella novel, Unholy City, is set at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan, a site of faith, history–and murder…. read more

Delightfully entertaining, jam-packed with baffling suspects and a surprising twist, all leading us to its satisfying end. Taken In is a great read for the couch or the beach…. read more

Some Hell is a harrowing novel about a gay teen’s coming of age… read more

In Ana Simo’s darkly funny, dystopian debut novel, not only was America never great; it might’ve never existed to begin with… read more