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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

Footnotes to a Murder

The 1943 killing of a Manhattan heiress led to a demonizing public conversation on homosexuality. A decade later, a true crime book obfuscated the sexual details.

Prize

"Allen is my new boyfriend and he is pretty much the best thing that has ever happened to me."

Early Stories Pt. 2: Body Pods

"Buddy, you'll know when I'm mad."

'I Walk in the City All the Time': An Interview with Orhan Pamuk

Talking with the author of A Strangeness in My Mind about writing about food and eating, urban exploration, and bringing the humanity of background characters to the fore.

Theological Scars

My loss of God occurred soon after I got to divinity school. I still can't decide if that was the least likely of places for it to happen or the only place in the world where it was possible.

Lucky Jim Bond: Inside Kingsley Amis's Quietly Subversive 007

The spy's relationship with the villain Colonel Sun veered from tradition: absent a manufactured fatal love triangle, Amis examined the toxic, unsatisfying power dynamics between like minds.