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Review of Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut 

What Was Forster Thinking? The Gay and Lesbian Review, July-Aug. 2015 “ARCTIC SUMMER,” the title of an unfinished novel by E. M. Forster, well suits this fictional biography of the English writer. It’s hard to imagine a writer further away from the romantic image of the struggling, mercurial artist. Forster was born in 1879 and …

Review of Barney Frank’s Autobiography

Homo Economicus The Gay and Lesbian Review, Sep.- Oct. 2015 Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank Farrar, Straus and Giroux 400 pages, $28.   GAY, JEWISH, and left-handed, Barney Frank likes to say that he’s a natural advocate for minorities. At the same time, had he not been …

Review of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

No Rose Without a Thorn The Gay and Lesbian Review, March-April, 2015 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Doubleday. 736 pages, $30.   A NOVEL about the “little life” of a handsome, brilliant, successful New Yorker who says “I don’t think happiness is for me” and cuts himself regularly was bound to attract attention. Hanya …

Review of Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

How straight could Kafka have been? The Gay and Lesbian Review, 2014 Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt Saul Friedländer Yale University Press 200 pages, $26.   HISTORIAN Saul Friedländer ventures into Franz Kafka scholarship with panache. Sex, he declares, is the hitherto missing key to interpreting “the poet of shame and guilt.” …

Review of Sarah Schulman’s Book on Pinkwashing

Does Israel ‘Pinkwash’? The Gay and Lesbian Review, Jan.-Feb. 2013 Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman Duke University Press.  208 pages, $22.95   SARAH SCHULMAN’S new book, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, is a triple cause of delight for me. Schulman is a renowned Jewish-American lesbian activist who describes here her visit to …