Kam Reads and Recs

With a time-trekking adventure and thorny moral dilemmas, 'X-Men '97' reminds us why it's the best X-Men story in decades.

If there is anything I believe to be foundational to the business of writing then it is this: writing is work. To frame it in this way is to

Lindsy Van Gelder—author of that famous New York Post article about bra-burning feminists—reflects on the alternative LGBTQ+ press of the 19

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

Larry Levis’s collected poems tell the present moment to go to hell.

Artist and critic Hal Fischer discusses his seminal photographic series ‘Gay Semiotics’ and a new career-spanning monograph.

There’s a popular idea, fueled by countless Hollywood movies, of how writing a novel works. It goes something like this. Author is struck by

There was, last fall, a lot pulling us to see the movie Hamnet—the Shakespearean subject matter, the caliber of the actors, the breathless r

The story begins in the 1990s, not long after the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of twelve new democracies. In this climate, the

Once upon a time, you couldn’t tell a story straight. The problem might be that you began as a poet. That focus on a moment, an image, that

Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution addresses citizenship rights, due process, and equal protection under the l