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SEEING THROUGH is composer Ricky Ian Gordon’s detailed, passionate recollection of his life and career. Discovering opera as a child, Gordon found it a means of escaping a tumultuous home life, whi…

Written for lay readers, Straight Acting discusses complex issues in a readable style and includes an extensive bibliographical essay and footnotes. Each chapter begins with a fictional scene from …

THREE NEW BOOKS, two novels and a memoir, help reveal the struggles and victories of LGBT Syrians. For all the beauty of the country, Syria is a land of horrific oppression, where gay men in partic…

PATRICK E. HORRIGAN is a writer exploring the effect of art on individuals, beginning with his memoir Widescreen Dreams: Growing up Gay at the Movies (1999), and continuing with the novels Portraits at an Exhibition (2015) and Pennsylvania Station…

BE NOT AFRAID OF MY BODY: A Lyrical Memoir by Darius Stewart Belt Publishing. 260 pages, $19.99 BE NOT AFRAID of My Body is a poetic recounting of a gay Black man’s life. In beautifully moving language, poet Darius Stewart explores his race,…

Published in: November-December 2023 issue. BLACKOUTS: A NovelJustin TorresFarrar, Straus and Giroux. 301 pages, $27 BLACKOUTS is an unusual novel, blending fact with fiction, a loose sequel to author Justin Torres’ debut novel We the Animals. The…

Published in: July-August 2023 issue. IN MEMORIAM: A Novelby Alice WinnKnopf. 382 pages, $29. IN MEMORIAM is an ambitious debut novel about the love between two English schoolboys who become soldiers during World War I. Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood…

FEVER SPORESThe Queer Reclamation of William S. BurroughsEdited by Brian Alessandro and Tom CardamoneRebel Satori Press301 pages, $19.95 IN FEVER SPORES, an ecclectic collection of essays and interviews about writer William S. Burroughs, editors…

EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINEA Love Story, in Music Lessonsby Jeremy DenkRandom House. 366 pages, $28.99 EVERY GOOD BOY Does Fine is an engaging memoir by MacArthur “Genius Grant” pianist Jeremy Denk. With humor and intelligence, he recounts his life…

LORRAINE HANSBERRYThe Life Behind A Raisin in the Sunby Charles J. ShieldsHenry Holt & Co. 367 pages, $29.99 LORRAINE HANSBERRY (1930-1965) has experienced a revival of interest in recent years, with several biographies and collections of her…

Published in: May-June 2022 issue. THE PARIS BOOKSELLERby Kerri MaherBerkley. 336 pages, $26. THE PARIS BOOKSELLER is a charming historical novel about Sylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare and Company, the first English-language bookstore in Paris,…

Based on Charles M. Blow’s memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black, as well as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s 2021–22 season (after a year and a half of…