In reviewing the movie “Brokeback Mountain” I looked forward to the DVD release so I could find out what some…
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.
One October afternoon in 1997, I settled down with the latest issue of the New Yorker and started reading a…
I am very grateful to Criterion for excellent DVDs of many important and/or great movies, but sometimes puzzled by picks…
It seems to me that British gay movies are recurrently overrated (e.g., “Weekend”). Though I think there is much to…
Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy’s novel No Past, No Present, No Future (Heinemann African Writers Series, 1973) begins and ends with…
“Anthony Burgess [1917-93] was a novelist of indisputable genius who never published an indisputably great novel,” according to Dana Gioia…
Though clearly not a gay writer, the prolific Anthony Burgess (1917-93) recurrently focused on gay characters and/or Brits who struck…
Herman Melville began writing Billy Budd in 1888, leaving it unfinished when he died in 1891. It was discovered and…
I was pretty irritated by the sympathy for his assailant that Édouard Louis produced in History of Violence (published in…
I read multiple Anthony Burgess novels when I was in high school, and acquired his Malayan trilogy, his first three…
