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Fraser’s revolutionary adaptation of “Richard II” and Jackman-Torkoff’s energetic performance are bringing the Bard to new audiences

REVIEW: Narrating as a future mermaid, Jade Song’s protagonist is a prickly queer who holds readers at a distance

REVIEW: With “Chrysalis,” Anuja Varghese’s protagonists reject fairy-tale lives, embracing the unexpected

REVIEW: The excesses of Aurora Mattia’s debut novel are also part of what makes it real

REVIEW: “Scorched Grace” launches the unapologetic career of Sister Holiday

REVIEW: The modern gothic thriller “Tell Me I’m Worthless” grapples with how fascist tendencies urge us turn on each other

Jamie Diaz discovered her queerness and artistry at the same time—probably not a coincidence

Artist, performer and writer Lauren John Joseph talks about getting beyond mere trans representation

REVIEW: Kathy Acker was the kind of writer who’d perform sex acts in public; author Jason McBride captures her raucous life in his new biography

These recent memoirs echoed events in my own life, sometimes in unexpected ways

REVIEW: Trynne Delaney’s genre-breaking debut novella introduces us to a group of Black survivors imagining their future

With “Young Mungo,” Douglas Stuart solidifies his legacy as the chronicler of working-class queer Scotland

In John Irving’s latest novel, “The Last Chairlift,” the straight cis protagonist feels like a minority amidst all the queerness

“Despite trauma and tragedy, we Indigenous people and queer people produce joy in our lives”: Billy-Ray Belcourt on his new novel

REVIEW: In “Fayne,” literary legend Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us out for a walk upon the moors in a tale that references “Jane Eyre” and “Orlando”

The literary debut of Argentina-born New York trans and sex work activist deserves all the adjectives

REVIEW: A new horror anthology, “Queer Little Nightmares,” sets the monsters loose among us—and we are delighted to be so scared

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