Books

The Handmaid’s Tale

by Darren Reidy

August 5, 2024

An Airborne Literary Event?

"Falling Man" is a powerfully written and compulsively creative work, but falls short.

by James Ledbetter

Originally published: May 8, 2007

In Praise of Pulps

“During the ’50s, when little or nothing honest about gay male and lesbian lives was available culturally, how could a truth teller grab a niche? Not through high culture”

by Jeff Weinstein

Originally published: October 1, 1983

Frontierswomen in Love

“It is a witty pleasure to read a frontier tale where the explorers, the pathfinders, the hunters, the new builders are there, but metaphorically — as gay women!”

by Bell Gale Chevigny

Originally published: April 20, 1972

The Beats: Mailer Vs. Kerouac

“Kerouac and Mailer have long been literary brothers, even if under each other’s skin. Which one founded the Beat Generation and which one merely found it is just a matter of semantics”

by Alfred G. Aronowitz

Originally published: May 18, 1960

James Fenimore Cooper’s Brave Old World

“Despite his penetration of the national psyche, and his status as more or less the George Washington of American letters, the respect Cooper has received at home has rarely been more than grudging”

by Geoffrey O'Brien

Originally published: June 25, 1986

A Fierce Attachment

“My mother is an urban peasant and I am my mother’s daughter. The city is our natural element. We each have daily adventures with bus drivers, bag ladies, ticket takers, and street crazies. Walking brings out the best in us.”

by Vivian Gornick

Originally published: March 17, 1987

Elvis Presley as Moby Dick

At the end of 'Mystery Train' by Greil Marcus, we appreciate that we have only begun to hear what the most popular music of our time is telling us.

Originally published: May 26, 1975

Jerzy Kosinski’s Tainted Words

“Though his work for human rights is unassailable, the books grow worse and worse, the tales of his derring-do more and more farfetched. Finally, without at all forgiving him his lies, one feels sorry for Kosinski.”

by Geoffrey Stokes with Eliot Fremont-Smith

Originally published: June 22, 1982

Was Walt Whitman Christ?

“Just as the gospels and Pauline writings were the Bible of Christianity in the past, so 'Leaves of Grass' would be the Bible of Cosmic civilization in the future”

Originally published: April 1, 1982

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