Paradise Burns
A young man dies at twenty-four, and the people who loved him each keep a different piece of his life.
Theme
Queer Life
Reviews of literary fiction about gay desire, partnership and the lived realities of queer identity and experience.
Reviews filed under this theme.
The Wax Child
Women who really do work magic, condemned by a court that manufactures its evidence anyway.
All Them Dogs
Violence taken up as courtship in West Dublin, turning every order from a lover into a form of love.
Hurricane Season
A woman's murder narrated as folklore, exposing the contempt that made her killable long before anyone raised a knife.
Dooneen
A wounded man writes from a cliff-cut room as Dublin’s housing uprising ends in massacre and contested record.
The Disappearers
A rehearsal room in 1988 Kingston becomes the site of an attack whose aftermath spreads through aliases, testimony, revenge and return.
Kingfisher
A debut novel follows a writer’s affair with an older woman, turning desire, illness and care into a question of who controls the record.
Palimpsest
A memoir organises a life as social evidence, placing wit, rank and sexual candour under the pressure of what the argument cannot contain: the grief that outlasts every performance of detachment.
She Who Remains
Measuring the cost of remaining alive when survival requires self-erasure.
The South
A failing farm in southern Malaysia. A queer attraction formed across unequal access to exit. The South asks who can leave, and at what cost.
While The World Slept
A Nigerian short story collection about queer life, family pressure, religious judgement and the cost of being known.
Box Hill
A six-year BDSM relationship written as a study of unequal access: a flat without a key, a man without a surname, a death without a grave.