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‘A Sharp Endless Need’ Lives in the Intersection of Sex and Basketball

At their heart, great sex and great basketball rely on the same fundamental principles: trust, attention, collaboration, and a desire to create something with whoever you’re with.

Gen —

May 13, 2025

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The Best Queer Books Featuring Mommy Issues

Gays really are out here having complicated relationships with our mothers and then writing whole books about it.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 11, 2025

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With ‘Stag Dance’, Torrey Peters Is Back and Better Than Ever

The laws of masculinity, and the ways in which they restrict and influence gender, infect every story (and novel) included in Torrey Peters’ collection, Stag Dance.

Nic Anstett —

Mar 24, 2025

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In ‘Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,’ It’s Clowns vs. Capitalism

Arnett’s work is a reminder of something we often shy away from: What is the point of experiencing all of the pains of the human condition if we can’t, at…

Stef Rubino —

Mar 17, 2025

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‘I Want You More’ Traps a Lesbian Ghostwriter in a Manor With a Devious Food Network Star

Talking to Swan Huntley about her new queer thriller “I Want You More,” building a writing career, whether she takes her own advice, the endless internal void, loving food shows…

Riese —

May 31, 2024

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‘Housemates’ Is a Remarkable Novel, Intimate, Expansive, and Full of Sight

It’s about seeing through images and seeing through words. It’s also a love story, about falling for the way another person sees the world, the magic of realizing someone sees…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 28, 2024

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Anna Dorn Writes Maximalist, Campy Queer Fiction Inspired by Lesbian Pulp

“I have problematic fantasies about being closeted in the 50s and just like having ‘a friend.'”

Keely —

May 22, 2024

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In ‘We Were the Universe’, Grief and Motherhood Are Horny

We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 20, 2024

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‘Love the World Or Get Killed Trying’ Is a Poetic Cry of Trans Loneliness

The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 15, 2024

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‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive

Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 13, 2024

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‘How it Works Out’ Imagines Many Madcap Alternate Universes of Queer Love

It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.

Aamina Inayat Khan —

May 8, 2024

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In “City of Laughter,” a Story Doesn’t Have To Be Complete To Be Meaningful

Temim Fruchter’s debut novel is fueled by queer desire and queer investigation.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 12, 2024