As co-editor of a history of anthropology series published by the University of Nebraska Press, I read a lot of…
Author: Stephen O. Murray
Stephen O. Murray
Stephen O. Murray grew up in rural southern Minnesota, earned a B.A. from James Madison College (within Michigan State University), an M.A. from the University of Arizona, a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (both in sociology), and was a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley (in anthropology). He is the author of American Gay, Homosexualities, etc. and lives in San Francisco.
Colin Turnbull’s 1961 The Forest People made a lot of money for Simon & Schuster and himself. It was taken…
Although Kent State professor of French literature Richard M. Berrong presses a view of the sexual orientation of French writer…
Like recent books on London and Chicago, When Brooklyn was Queer is more experience-near than academic writings about lesbian, gay,…
I do not share the high valuation of Ersi Sotiropoulos’s novel about the 32-yer-old Constantine Cavafy in Paris on three…
I don’t believe that so-called “queer theory” explains anything at all,* after positing intracultural variability (and individual fluidity about sexual…
A pleasant surprise after putting off trying to read the book for nearly a quarter of a century, was that…
Pedro Segundo Mardones Lemebel (1952- 2015) was a flamboyantly homosexual Chilean writer and dissident, My Tender Matador (Tengo Miedo Torero…
I was mesmerized and astounded by Dale Peck’s debut fiction, the homoerotic variations Martin and John. I probably would have…
