Books | Xtra Magazine

Crazy8s asks: What if Cinderella were a drag queen?

The Twisted Slipper offers a fresh take on a classic tale of magical yearning

By Greg Armstrong-Morris

Arts

The Vagina Monologues comes to Ottawa

Actors prepare for classic and newer segments of one-woman show created by Eve Ensler

By Adrienne Ascah

Power

Looking back, moving forward

A timeline of Xtra Vancouver and the community we’ve chronicled

Sharp in the Dark

Sharp in the Dark, Part 11

A Woman in the Night

By Hope Thompson

Power

Hamilton couple forges ahead with LGBT scholarship

New scholarship aimed at black queer youth already attracting attention

Culture

Glad Day Book Club

Bibliophilia at its purest

By Jeremy Willard

Arts

The phantasmal engine

James K Moran’s horror novel features queer heroes and an ominous train

By Jeremy Willard

Dollars and Sex: Love and sex through an economic lens

Economist shows correlation between gay cruising spots and social tolerance

Culture

Claude Vivier biography paints vivid and tragic picture

Bob Gilmore’s book is first formal look at murdered Canadian composer

By Lydia Perovic

Culture

Online protesters target gay author over ‘vulgar’ content

National Post columnist Barbara Kay calls Raziel Reid’s novel ‘values-void’

Sharp in the Dark

Sharp in the Dark, Part 10

Behind the blue curtain

By Hope Thompson

Culture

Rare Oscar Wilde books a ‘huge coup’ for UBC and queer studies

Teleny was ‘the first book to deal explicitly with homosexuality,’ says PhD student

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Power

Xtra to close print publications in February

Pink Triangle Press says focus will now be on digital media

Culture

Gay publisher Xtra to embrace digital, close print

Pink Triangle Press expands digital operations; print editions to fold in mid-February

Arts

2014: Year of the queer comic

Comic artist reviews an explosive year for queer comics and graphic novels

By Michael Lyons

Arts

The things Alex Leslie’s poetry can do

A new collection of writing queers the line between poetry and fiction

By Lydia Perovic

Arts

Alan Cumming is on fire

On screen, in print and on stage — Cumming’s career has never burned brighter

By Johnnie Walker

Sharp in the Dark

Sharp in the Dark, Part 9

Red room

By Hope Thompson

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