How the queer theorist went from celebrating ironic distance and deconstructing drag shows to straight-faced gender totalitarianism
Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody is the most original French-to-English translator of his generation and a hugely talented poet. But unlike Richard Howard, he has yet to make Baudelaire his own.
The avant-garde Jewish lesbian essayist was a forerunner of petty 1990s observational comedy. But she is also something deeper.
Julia Kristeva on Céline
Larry Kramer, Richie Bronstein, and the question of whether homosexuality is a heritage that should be handed down from generation to generation by scandalous Jew daddies, or proper, self-respecting homos
