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At Los Angeles Review of Books, Shoshana Olidort spends time with Wayne Koestenbaum to discuss his new book, Camp Marmalade. The second volume in Koestenbaum's trance trilogy, which started with The...

Research has surfaced indicating that William Shakespeare may have annotated the margins of a 16th-century text that most likely served as a source for Hamlet. Author John Casson "was looking through...

John Yau wrote about writer, critic, and poet Douglas Crase for Hyperallergic this past weekend. In a piece that suggests a good starting point be the recently published Lines from London Terrace: Essays...

For the New Yorker's "Culture Desk," Doreen St. Félix writes about Chicago poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall's recent participation in the shadow-box play, No Blue Memories: The Life of...

This morning, Lambda Literary announced the finalists for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys." The organization presents the awards in categories ranging from Lesbian Fiction...

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reviews Fady Joudah's latest collection, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance (Milkweed, 2018), for The Rumpus. "These poems, poised at the intersections of the material, the metaphorical, and the spiritual,...

The Boston Review's Daniel T. O'Brien looks at Randall Mann's new book, Proprietary (Persea Books, 2018), a collection that "wades through a personal and collective history of queerness—as a sometimes defiant,...

When I opened the March issue of Poetry, my right hand began to shake.

From Seoul, South Korea, Heekyong Yang reports on the closing of an exhibition by Ko Un, after allegations of sexual harassment were made by several women against the poet. The allegations...

At the Paris Review, for her series called Eat Your Words, Valerie Stivers invites readers to think about what Langston Hughes might have eaten when he wrote Not Without Laughter....