Thursday, January 4, 2018

M. John Harrison's "The Crisis"


My gaydar set off on this one immediately. False positive? Read for yourself (it's a really good short story all on its own). And for those of you like me unfamiliar with "mercuric sulphocyanate" — voilà  pharaoh's serpent!

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

— a History!

transferring this to "Books We Have Read" I realize we didn't comment on the subtitle "A Graphic History". May mitigate some of our criticisms of the book … or not?

Monday, January 1, 2018

"No Sex Please, We're Gay"

Tip of the hat to Ken Jost for calling our attention to this critical review of Call Me by Your Name in last week's Post. A complementary critique from The New Yorker also appeared last month. (Complimentary critiques of course elsewhere abound.)