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BEFORE STONEWALL by Edward M. Cohen Awst Press. 230 pages, $24. The stories in this collection are all about being gay in the late 1940s and '50s, and the world [...]

WENDY CARLOS by Amanda Sewell Oxford Univ. Press. 264 pages, $34.95 AS AN ADOLESCENT in the early 1970s, I remember saving up my allowance to buy vinyl LPs of movie [...]

UNRULY DESIRES American Sailors and Homosexualities in the Age of Sail by William Benemann Independently Published 356 pages, $15.95 ANYONE who has read MobyDick will recall the scenes of Ishmael [...]

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar Atria Books. 304 pages, $27. THE QUEST to discover one's true identity is a central theme in much of world literature. Zeyn [...]

NEW YORK DIARY by Tim Dlugos Edited by David Trinidad Sibling Rivalry Press. 78 pages, $ 15.95 THE JOURNALS and diaries of writers are a mixed bag: sometimes they illuminate [...]

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart Grove Press. 448 pages, $17. WINNER of the U.K.'s Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award in America, Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain [...]

TELL ME ABOUT IT 3: LGBTQ Secrets, Confession, and Life Stories by St. Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen Rattling Good Yarns Press, 416 pp. $17.95 This is the [...]

Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann Coffee House Press. 151 pages, $16.95 'I always know there's going to be some bullshit at the airport,' comments [...]

Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casementby Martin DubermanU. of California. 288 pages, $32.95Roger casement (1864 1916) was an Irish diplomat at a time when Ireland was [...]

MOONFLOWER, NIGHTSHADE, ALL THE HOURS OF THE DAY: Stories by JD Scott Lake Forest College. 236 pages, $ 16.95 Published as part of the 'Plonsker Series' after winning the Madeleine [...]

The Next Loves by Stephane Bouquet. Translated by Lindsay Turner Nightboat Books. 114 pages, $ 16.95 The Book of Daniel by Aaron Smith University of Pittsburgh Press. 108 pages, $17. [...]

History's Queer Stories: Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War by Natalie Marena Nobitz Transcript-Verlag. 310 pages, $45. Gay fiction before Stonewall is widely assumed [...]

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin G.P. Putnam's Sons. 346 pages, $26. IT'S A QUESTION as old as Greek tragedy (or older): what part does fate play in our lives? What [...]

Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir by Jake Shears Atria Books. 336 pages, $26. You might expect an autobiography by Jake Shears, lead singer of the musical group Scissor Sisters, to [...]

To the Editor: I could not agree more with Tom Steele's letter to the Editor ('Don't Call Me Queer') in the September-October issue. The increasingly widespread use of this term [...]

You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr Bloomsbury Publishing. 352 pages, $27. HOW DOES THE PAST ripple through to the present? In what ways do the actions of those [...]

Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly by Joshua Rivkin Melville House. 496 pages, $32. AMONG the notable 20th-century painters, Cy Twombly is one of the most polarizing, either [...]

Goodbye Heiko, Goodbye Berlin: A City Divided Then Reunited After Fall of Infamous Wall by Owen Levy BookLocker.com, Inc. 281 pages, $ 18.95 WHAT IS IT that one loves about [...]

The Damned Don't Cry, They Just Disappear: The Life and Works of Harry Hervey by Harlan Greene University of South Carolina Press. 184 pages. $29.99 IN 1993, John Berendt's Midnight [...]

Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination by Sue Elliott and Steve Humphries Biteback Publishing. 338 pages, $17.95 The companion volume to a TV documentary in the UK, [...]

Aphrodite's Daughters: Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Maureen Honey Rutgers. 224 pages, $27.95 STUDIES of the Harlem Renaissance typically focus on black male figures such as Langston Hughes [...]

Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke by Paul Delany McGill-Queen's University Press 380 pages, $34.95 RUPERT BROOKE is one of those figures who continually haunt the periphery of literature, [...]

Deep Lane by Mark Doty W.W. Norton & Company. 96 pages, $25.95 DEEP LANE is Mark Doty's eighth collection of poetry. In books as wide-ranging as My Alexandria (1993) and [...]

anybody by Ari Banias W.W. Norton. 112 pages, $25.95 Primer by Aaron Smith University of Pittsburgh Press 104 pages, $15.95 EVERY SO OFTEN, a poet appears who seems to have [...]

Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature by David Greven Ashgate Publishing Limited. 250 pages, $109.95 AN ALARMING PASSAGE occurs on page 56 of David Greven's Gender Protest [...]

by John Schuyler Bishop CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 288 pages, $14. Situated squarely in the 'speculative fiction.' arena, John Schuyler Bishop's historical novel contains one of the more intriguing scenarios [...]

Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond Akashic Books.226 pages, $17.95 This is a first novel that takes its impetus from a verse in Corinthians that indicates, when it comes [...]

More Than We Know by Rachel Hyde DayLily Press. 278 pages, $14.95 Every so often a book crawls into your lap and curls up there like a child, demanding your [...]

Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew by Max Egremont Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 352 pages, $16. Coinciding with the centennial celebrations of World War I, this [...]

Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships, and Identity Edited by Carter Sickels Ooligan Press. 248 pages, $16.95 IN an era when so much effort has been directed at [...]

Water Music by Georgette Gouveia River Grove Books. 216 pages, $12.95 This novel is centered around two sets of Olympic athletes each of which is secretly in love with his [...]

These Things Happen by Richard Kramer Unbridled Books. 256 pages, $16. Richard Kramer, a screenwriter, producer, and director for such shows as Thirty something, Once and Again, and Tales of [...]

Lasting City: The Anatomy of Nostalgia by James McCourt Liveright/W.W. Norton. 321 pages, $26.95 IF PROUST AND JOYCE had had a gay love child, he might very well have resembled [...]