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SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody Seal Press. 335 pages, $30. BEST KNOWN for her [...]

SQUARE HAUNTING Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade Tim Duggan Books.420 pages, $28.99 IN MY THIRTIES, I did a great deal of traveling, especially to ancient [...]

MORRIS KIGHT Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist by Mary Ann Cherry Process Media. 405 pages, $22.95. I HAVE BEEN a longtime activist in the women's movement and in LGBT rights on the [...]

Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser Ecco.832 pages, $39.99 BENJAMIN MOSER'S biography Sontag: Her Life and Work makes a show of presenting Susan Sontag's life in a nonjudgmental [...]

AMID THE CHAOS and uncertainty of the election and spiking Covid numbers, I received a copy of a new edition of Dorothy Strachey's classic Sapphic novel, Olivia, with an introduction [...]

My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman Translated by Corina Copp The Song Cave. 173 pages. $20. CHANTAL AKERMAN'S memoir My Mother Laughs is similar to her films: layered, defying time [...]

World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller by David S. Wills Beatdom Books. 264 pages, $22. IN WORLD CITIZEN, author David S. Wills conservatively estimates that Ginsberg visited as many as [...]

Hymn To Apollo: The Ancient World & the Ballets Russes Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU March 6-June 2, 2019 THERE IS much truth to the adage [...]

Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York Curated by Julia Foulkes NY Public Library for the Performing Arts Sept. 26, 2018-March 30, 2019 Jerome Robbins: A Life in [...]

Iron Curtain Journals: January-May 1965 by Allen Ginsberg Edited by Michael Schumacher Univ. of Minnesota Press. 400 pages, $29.95 IN THE EARLY 1990s, I attended an event at New York's [...]

Butch Heroesby Ria BrodellMIT Press. 96 pages, $24.95UPON first looking into this small volume, I had no idea what really big ideas and treasures were to be found within its [...]

On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein: My Years with the Exasperating Genius by Charlie Harmon Imagine Press. 272 pages, $24.99 In this tell-all book, Charlie Harmon--orchestra [...]

Berlin's Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld Translated by James J. Conway Rixdorf Editions, 150 pages, $24. I TEACH a graduate course in sex and gender for students in a counseling [...]

Female Trouble: A Queer Film Classic by Chris Holmlund Arsenal Pulp Press.231 pages, $17.95 John Waters has finally arrived in academia as a subject to be analyzed and 'unpacked,' in [...]

One Of These Things First: A Memoir by Steven Gaines Delphinium Books. 196 pages, $20. Steven Gaines, author of books on Halston, the Beatles, and the Hamptons, has written a [...]

EDITOR Nigel Simeone has selected some 650 letters for this collection of Leonard Bernstein 's correspondence over a span of six decades of the 20th century. The first letter is [...]

RELEASED last fall and now available in home video formats, Four is a gripping and insightful exploration of the lives offour characters who are grappling with their fears and desires [...]

Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life In Song: A Memoir by Ronnie Gilbert University of California Press 272 pages, $26.95 RONNIE GILBERT died on June 6, 2015. This posthumously published memoir [...]

GROWING UP in a leftist family in the 1950s, my cultural education included lectures given by my mother on the connection hem cell politics and the arts. She would tell [...]

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister Edited by Helena Whitbread Virago, UK. 422 pages, $14.95 ASECRET DIARY--seduction, romance, lesbian love, sexual passages written in code--are all packaged in this [...]

A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds by Martin Duberman The New Press.275 pages (illustrated), $27.95 IN A SAVING REMNANT, historian Martin Duberman offers a [...]

As I sit writing, the news media are reporting that Representative Anthony Weiner has decided to resign from office. After weeks of a media circus providing the public with endless [...]

Over the past several months, Charlie Sheen, star of television sitcom Two and a Half Men, has captured the headlines with his self-proclaimed 'warlock' antics. Mr. 'Tiger Blood' has embarked [...]

Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. Ansky by Gabriella Safran Harvard University Press. 353 pages, $29.95 IN WANDERING SOUL, Gabriella Safran has written an erudite biography of the Yiddish radical, [...]

SIDNEY ABBOTT, well-known lesbian feminist activist, died in a fire on April 15, 2015, in her home in Southold, Long Island. She was 77. Those of us who knew her [...]

Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 385 pages, $28. AN OLD TRUNK, a cache of letters, and revelations about the life [...]

RONNIE GILBERT, the bold and provocative female voice in the Weavers folk quartet (which also included Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Fred Hellerman) died on Saturday, June 6,2015. Ruth Alice [...]

Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 by Noah Berlatsky Rutgers University Press 251 pages, $26.95 GREAT HERA, Wonder Woman lives! Noah Berlatsky, comic commentator and editor-blogger [...]

In June 2006, the American Sociological Review published a study on Americans and friendship by three sociologists--Miller McPherson, from University of Arizona (UA) and Duke University; Lynn Smith-Lovin, from Duke [...]

Two years ago I attended a conference in New Orleans. It was late June, and the intense heat and humidity had already taken hold of the city. I arrived at [...]

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel by Francine Prose HarperCollins. 448 pages, $26.99 CROSS DRESSERS, artists, poets, writers, jaded chanteuses, fabulously wealthy aristocrats, brilliant conversations, and an [...]

On August 27, 2013, the New York Times ran an article titled 'Set Back By Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound,' wherein Michael Winerip discusses the challenges confronting those who [...]

A CENTURY has passed since the publication of Swann's Way in 1913, the first seven volumes that comprise Marcel Proust's magnum opus, In Scorch of Lost Time (also translated as [...]

Over the past several months, a number of articles have landed on my desk dealing with loneliness in America. The New Republic (May 27, 2013) has a lead article, 'The [...]