America in Transition: Review
America in Transition
Created & directed by André Pérez
Revry
Reviewed by T.J. Banks
Tiommi Luckett is an HIV advocate living in Arkansas. Dezjorn Gauthier is a model,...
1980: Review
1980
by David Cornish, MD
BookBaby
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
It’s the dawn of the eighties and Dr. Arthur Noble, a young medical resident, is facing a...
1985: Review
1985
Written & directed by Yen Tan
MuseLessMime Productions/Cranium Entertainment
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
1985 is a film about secrets—the secrets we think we’re hiding, but are...
Our Young Man: Review
Our Young Man
by Edmund White
Bloomsbury
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Two seminal novels have been written about gay life in Manhattan and Fire Island in the...
My Name Is Lucy Barton: Review
My Name Is Lucy Barton
by Elizabeth Strout
Random House
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
In her short but stunning new novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth...
Memories of a Penitent Heart: Review
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...
Mark Olmsted: Advocate
Creativity as a Survival Tool
In prison Mark Olmsted wrote his way back to sobriety and sanity
by Larry Buhl
Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Sean Black
With...
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: Review
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening : How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and Open Heart
Carol Wall
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Reviewed...
The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction: Review
The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction
Edited by Dale Peck
Soho Press
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
The eighties were a decade that began twelve straight...
HIV Happy: Review
HIV Happy
by Paul Thorn
EM Press
Reviewed by Alina Oswald
The AIDS pandemic is only one year shy of turning thirty-five. During all this time, we’ve read...
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Plague Years: Review
Plague Years
A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis
Ross A. Slotten, MD
University of Chicago Press
Reviewed by Hank Trout
In 1992, a commissioner on the Chicago Board...
