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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

It’s like an episode of Friends, only sadder.

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Having a “Fall”: Interview with Christopher Rice

“I think that’s certainly something that can be said about the Iraq War: We are over there trying to save people who didn’t ask us to be there and who didn’t want to be saved by us. And that’s something he’s attuned to, and something a lot of military people are attuned to.”

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Christopher Rice’s Blind Fall

Blind Fall stumbles from the burden of having to be a novel about gay issues, rather than the more satisfying thriller it could have been.

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D’Emilio Marks Anniversary

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Kevin Barnhurst’s Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents

We have queered capitalism, and are paying the price. 

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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Surely, whatever else ails radical organizing: it’s not a dearth of coupledom or maternal feeling. 

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Bob Smith’s Selfish & Perverse

“What had me worried was that I was an artsy, thirty-four-year-old man who needed to confront whether I was really talented or just gay.”

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Review: Sara Paretsky’s Bleeding Kansas

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Friendship in the Time of Love

I realise I have nothing to prove to someone who’s simply not part of my tribe.

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Queers and Immigration Reform: Where Do We Stand?

Relocating and/or moving between two countries can be difficult and taxing but that, my friends, is not exile.  That’s mobility.