Positively Literary

Between the Pages: Where Trials Become Triumph! by Thaïs Sherell J. N-Spired Productions Reviewed by Chael Needle My stepmother used to tell me stories about Jesus, but they…

  Mariological Recitative of Mystical Pharmacology                                                                                                                         —Joseph F. Delgado Joseph F. Delgado is a former professor of Spanish literature and linguistics at the universities of Minnesota, Puerto…

High Fidelity Transmission: The ABCs of the Politics of AIDS by Rajesh Talwar Reviewed by John Francis Leonard India, which actually has a low percentage of its…

The Inanimate Me There’s only one rotten apple in this hospital, an old-school homophobic male nurse who’s pheromonic orchestration of testosterone is thwarted by the…

Pushing Dead Directed by Tom E. Brown Bugsby Pictures/Chrismatic Film Reviewed by T.J. Banks Danny Schauble (James Roday of Psych) is a writer who’s frequently at a loss…

Memories of a Penitent Heart Directed by Cecilia Aldarondo Blackscrackle Films Reviewed by T.J. Banks Cecilia Aldarondo remembers meeting her uncle, Miguel Dieppa, once as a child. Six…

Why We Dance Because we do the electric slide into the clinic to the tune of crying babies. Because every day we fox trot in and…

Children’s Book Raises Funds for AIDS United, The Trevor Project Chronicle Books, of San Francisco, has teamed with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to…

That’s What Friends Are For by Kenneth Sean Campbell CreateSpace Reviewed by John Francis Leonard LGBTQ people have families, of course. But for us, the families we create…

The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression and Then Some, 1976–1988 by Martin Duberman Duke University Press Reviewed by Hank Trout Martin Duberman , a genuine giant among…