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Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns features a rearview mirror with a desi woman's face reflected in it and an air freshener on fire.

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“Your Driver Is Waiting” Review: I’m Obsessed With the Swole Bisexual Narrator of This Rip-Roaring Novel

Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Feb 28, 2023

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Walking with Shadows by Jude Dibia features hands groping a man's bare chest

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Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair

As a child, I wasn’t different because I was gay (that came with teenagehood), I was different because I was autistic.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Feb 27, 2023

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Big Swiss by Jen Beagin features a woman howling and laying on the floor with a white milkmaid dress on

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“Big Swiss” Review: On the Queer Age Gap Novel Set in a House Full of Bees

Big Swiss veers from horny to humorous to macabre in zigs and zags.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Feb 21, 2023

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literary fiction

The cover of Endpapers, by Jennifer Savran Kelly. The book has a dark yellow background, and the title and author are collaged, interspersed with the collaged parts of a white person's face and the NYC skyline.

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“Endpapers” Is a Glimpse Into One Artist’s Fight To Be Themselves

Set against the authoritarian backdrops of the McCarthy era and George W. Bush’s post 9/11 America, “Endpapers” asks: What happens when we stop trying to force ourselves to be something…

Darcy —

Feb 8, 2023

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I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself by M Crane features a blue cover and a black shadowy figure

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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.

Yashwina —

Feb 3, 2023

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horror

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt features a woman's face merged with a haunted house on the cover

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Alison Rumfitt’s “Tell Me I’m Worthless” Is Fearlessly Honest About Modern Trans Life

In a time when so many popular examples of queer art have their edges sanded down, Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is all edge.

Esther Rosenfield —

Jan 17, 2023

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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “The Death of Vivek Oji” Delves Into What Is Born in Death

Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Nov 8, 2022

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Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief

Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.

shea wesley martin —

Nov 1, 2022

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An image of Blair Braverman's novel, Small Game, which is a green background with a campfire and text on it. In between two copies of the book, there is a portrait of Blair, who is a white woman standing in the snow wearing winter clothes, looking directly into the camera with a serious expression.

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When Survival Isn’t Just About Yourself

Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.

Darcy —

Oct 31, 2022

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horror

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya takes a mirror selfie, surrounded by copies of her novelette HELEN HOUSE. A small ghost comes out of her phone.

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy

Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.

Nico —

Oct 6, 2022

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Three images in a row of the pink cover of the book I'm The Girl. It features a blonde girl with dark brows and smeared red lipstick on a pink background.

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“I’m the Girl” Is a Harrowing, Complex Story of Abuse That’s Difficult To Read

Courtney Summers’ latest thriller tries to hold our culture accountable for its crimes against teen girls. Does it succeed?

Darcy —

Sep 13, 2022

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Stef Rubino's Middlesex tattoo, featuring the words "other halves" and a person emerging from petals. Also, the cover of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life

When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.

Stef Rubino —

Sep 4, 2022