Community connections, tenuous and profound, resonate across time in these heady, heart-rending titles
Christopher DiRaddo
Christopher DiRaddo is the author of The Family Way and The Geography of Pluto. He lives in Montreal where he is the founder and host of the Violet Hour reading series.
The deviant, danceable liberation of My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult’s ‘Sexplosion!’
After more than 30 years, the queer-coded album still thrills
The siren song of Andrew Holleran’s 1978 novel ‘Dancer from the Dance’
How one queer classic keeps moving me after all these years
8 fantastic books we somehow missed in 2021
It was a bountiful year for queer and trans literature in Canada. It’s hard to keep up
Shawn Hitchins’ new memoir charts path through bewildering grief
In “The Light Streamed Beneath It,” the author and comedian writes about the worst moments of his life with honesty and optimism
5 literary debuts that got us excited
The resilience of first-time writers was tested in a year without IRL book launches
A thrilling debut novel takes revenge on smalltown homophobia
Young Quebecois novelist Kevin Lambert kills it with his recently translated book “You Will Love What You Have Killed”