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 …
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.” …
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 …