The Dahlia Field: Stories: Review
The Dahlia Field: Stories
by Henry Alley
Chelsea Station Editions
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Every American city and town, every region, every state possesses its own unique...
Sistah’s Speak: Review
Sistah's Speak
by Khafre Kujichagulia Abif
Ubuntu Press
Reviewed by T.J. Banks
Their voices come at us from all directions, catching at our heart-strings. It’s tempting to call...
Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual: Review
Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual: or I Was Cursed by Polly Holliday
by Leslie L. Smith
A PressLess Book
Reviewed by Sally Hessney
In Sally Field Can...
Don’t Call Us Dead: Review
Don't Call Us Dead
by Danez Smith
Graywolf Press
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Somewhere among a juxtaposition of race, gender, sexuality, and physicality lies the transformative poetry...
At Danceteria: Review
At Danceteria and Other Stories
by Philip Dean Walker
Squares & Rebels
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Sometimes a writer can do something unique with the English language....
Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?: Review
Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?
by Jameson Currier
Chelsea Station Edition
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
In Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince...
Christodora: Review
Christodora
by Tim Murphy
Grove Press
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Christodora is a brilliantly wrought novel epic in scope, but executed with a deft and sure hand....
Positively Beautiful: Review
Positively Beautiful
Directed by Diveena Cooppan
Mo Berry Productions/Wicked Delicate
Reviewed by T.J. Banks
When you come to the edge of all the light you have known and...
Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall: Review
Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall
by James Magruder
Chelsea Station Editions
Reviewed by John Francis Leonard
Five graduate students, their assorted friends and lovers, and a self-described...
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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