On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
A son writes in a language his mother cannot read. Ocean Vuong’s novel examines how trauma and desire are fixed in sentences that cannot be answered.
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Queer Life
Reviews of literary fiction about gay desire, partnership and the lived realities of queer identity and experience.
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Giovanni’s Room
An American expatriate in 1950s Paris recounts the love he could not allow himself to live. Masculinity operates as self-policing that narrows into isolation