It seems to me that British gay movies are recurrently overrated (e.g., “Weekend”). Though I think there is much to…
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Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy’s novel No Past, No Present, No Future (Heinemann African Writers Series, 1973) begins and ends with…
Tom in America Directed by Flavio Alves Written by Flavio Alves, Scott Alexander Hess, and Jeffrey Solomon Premiered June 17, 2014 at…
“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…
Although I was very impressed by several kinds of daring in Dale Peck’s first fiction Martin and John 1993), I…
Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books, the reading level of Dale Peck’s 2009 novel Sprout is gauged “young adult.” With…
