Aria Aber’s debut novel follows a young, queer Afghan protagonist in 2010s Berlin

Amanda Lee Koe’s novel is a clever mash-up of queer pulp, magical realism, time travel and body horror, with a charged serpentine sisterhood at its centre

From tales of dramatic family secrets to sweet graphic novels, these titles are worth curling up with

The lesbian feminist writer passed on Nov. 6

REVIEW: Éric Chacour’s first novel is at turns gorgeously lush and frustratingly opaque

Katherine Packert Burke’s novel explores how little one can really understand about one’s own life while in the middle of living it

As writers abandon Substack en masse, here are some queer and trans writers you can now subscribe to guilt-free

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

Literature

‘Good Girl’ pulses with rage, joy, violence and pleasure

A well-known Chinese folk tale gets a queer reimagining in ‘Sister Snake’

12 queer and trans books we missed this year

5 things to know about Dorothy Allison

‘What I Know About You’ is a tale of the silence the repression of gay desire can wreak

‘Still Life’ captures the messiness of writing trans autofiction

Playwright Brad Fraser and actor Stephen Jackman-Torkoff are queering Shakespeare and sexing up the Stratford Festival

The swimming pool is a place of escape, competition and a teenage crush in Jade Song’s debut novel, ‘Chlorine’

In this debut story collection from Anuja Varghese, horror and shame commingle with joy and transformation

Online-famous writer Aurora Mattia intertwines reality and fiction in ‘The Fifth Wound’

Margot Douaihy’s lesbian nun-turned-detective is the star of the first novel from Gillian Flynn’s new imprint

A haunted house is a metaphor for right-wing terror in Alison Rumfitt’s frightening new novel

Jamie Diaz, in prison for almost 30 years and an artist almost 50, at last publishes her first comic book

How the death of a lover inspired Lauren John Joseph’s compelling debut novel

‘I’m so queer I’m not even gay.’ A new biography of Kathy Acker paints a picture of a troublemaker on the page and in life

The five queer books that helped me come out

In the ravished world of Trynne Delaney’s ‘The Half-Drowned,’ shape-shifting ideas of family are key to survival