Book Reviews

Perverts by Mac Crane Is the Queer Book We’ve Been Too Polite to Ask For

Mac Crane's debut story collection makes the taboo not just speakable but necessary. Seventeen stories about desire, shame, and the…

2 weeks ago

Nathan Tavares Sends Queer Disco to the Moon and It’s Out of This World.

Nathan Tavares swings big with an alternate-1977 queer sci-fi novel about disco, fascism, and alien adjudicators. It almost sticks the…

4 weeks ago

The Summer Boy Is Good, It’s Just Not Lie With Me.

Beautiful prose and precise observation, but The Summer Boy never quite finds the emotional hook that made Lie with Me…

1 month ago

Take Me With You Is Steven Rowley at His Most Mature and Heartfelt

Steven Rowley's latest novel uses an alien abduction to explore queer grief, long-term love, and what it means to be…

2 months ago

In Between Days Is Camryn Garrett’s Most Heartbreaking and Most Necessary Book Yet

Camryn Garrett's fifth novel follows a teenager who discovers her late father had a secret boyfriend and a queer life…

2 months ago

Smash or Pass Is the Sapphic YA Debut We Didn’t Know We Needed

Birdie Schae's debut is a warm, funny, and sharply observed sapphic YA novel about a high-masking autistic girl whose summer…

2 months ago

Douglas Stuart’s John of John Is Quietly Stunning but Slow

Douglas Stuart returns with John of John, a slow and stunning third novel set on the Isle of Harris. A…

2 months ago

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Almost Life Is Achingly Human

Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacre-Coeur in 1978 and spend the next three decades orbiting each…

3 months ago

We Burned So Bright Is TJ Klune at His Most Tender and Devastating

Don and Rodney have been married for forty years. Now a black hole is heading for Earth and they have…

5 months ago

Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall Is a Bold Swing That Doesn’t Quite Land

★★★ Author Alexis HallPublisher Tor BooksDOP March 10, 2026 Quick Take Hell's Heart is Alexis Hall's first science fiction novel…

5 months ago