Reading Alan Gurganus’s stunning reflection in the new Granta on police entrapment and small-town will not to know (but, when…
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.
Having been considering the males in Shakespeare who are left behind when their playmates wed, when I watched Branagh’s Much…
Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750–1918 by Rudi C. Bleys Published by…
When Andrew Holleran was at A Different Light, he said that The Beauty of Men grew out of a diary…
Continuing to fill in lacunae in my classical education, I read Achilles Tatius’s Cleitophon and Leucippe (not just the famed…
I found Shyam Selvadurai engaging, reading from the beginning of Funny Boy and answering naive questions (only one from someone…
I find Donald Webster Cory’s 1953 collection of 21 Variations on a Theme depressing, aside from the contents of many…
The manuscript of the third volume of Das Kapital (Capital) breaks off at just the point where Karl Marx (1818-83)…
I think that “Howl” (produced, written, and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) is a very interesting movie with…
I am puzzled that movies about the early daze/days of the beat writers keep being made, despite their limited commercial…
