Tag: Good

Nene Adams | Flowers of Edo | Kazuko has tattoos on her body and deadly secrets in her heart. Employed as a house guard in a brothel in the infamous Yoshiwara pleasure district of

Qwo-Li Driskill | Asegi Stories | In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translat

Mary Cappello | Called Back | “Mary Cappello’s Called Back shimmers on the page. Ezra Pound said a writer has to ‘make it new’ and Cappello has done that rare feat. Cancer books ha

Timothy Stewart-Winter | Queer Clout | In focusing on Chicago–and moving away from the big events and figures that have dominated LGBT history so far–Stewart-Winter provides a fascinating

Barbara Ann Wright | Coilz | Cressida loves Greek mythology, tales of gods and monsters, but she knows they aren’t real no matter how awesome it would be to meet the beautiful wom

Iris Murdoch | An Unofficial Rose | After his wife’s death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect pa

Constance Merritt | Blind Girl Grunt | These poems are brilliant and dangerous. The opening poem, “Invisible Woman, Dancing,” is the best protest poem of the decade. The speaker attends a p

Val McDermid | Cross And Burn | Someone is brutally killing women.

Women who bear a striking resemblance to former DCI Carol Jordan. The connection is too strong to ignore a

Siri Caldwell | Mistletoe Mishap | This Christmas, chemistry won’t be found only in the lab… On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave me a kiss…on the cheek. On the second d

Ria Brodell | Butch Heroes | Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambitious and wonderfully celebratory ode to the lives of 28 people over many centuries ‘assigned female at birth’ w