Private Moments Bel Ami by Howard Roffman Bruno Gmünder ISBN 9 783867 870375 This is what used to be called a 'coffee table' book - they tend to be 'art' books or big fat books about graphics, dance, the cinema and such like.  This one … [Read more...]

QUEER Simon Gage Lisa Richards Howard Wilmot Thunder's Mouth Press distributed by Publishing Group West ISBN 1-56025-377-0 This big chunky 'coffee table' book is authored by three Brits, and published in the US of A.  That's … [Read more...]

Disclosures (Ed.) Michael Ford DartonŸLongman+Todd ISBN 0-232-52561-7 This is a series of interviews with (mostly male) Gays about their relationships with each other and various Christian churches.  The churches are mostly the Anglican … [Read more...]

Jeff Mann Southern Tier Editions HARRINGTON PARK PRESS (An imprint of Howarth Press Inc.) ISBN 1 - 56023-430-X This is a collection of autobiographical essays by Jeff Mann, now a lecturer in LGBT Literature, Southern [US] literature … [Read more...]

Out-take; upstart (January 1997) Cassells Queer Companion William Stewart Cassell This large, fat, 278 pages book, claims in a subtitle to be a Dictionary of Lesbian and Gay Life and Culture.  Stewart, in his Introduction rightly backs … [Read more...]

The World of Serge Diaghilev Charles Spencer Penguin ISBN 0 14 00.5155 4 This edition was published in the US in 1979.  The first publication (US / UK) was in '74.  The cover has an image derived from an illustration by a chap called … [Read more...]

Rude Britannia Tim Fountain W&N (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) ISBN978 0 279 85262 9 Tim Fountain's one… (um) person… show Sex Addict caused uproar in the early noughties.  He writes that it upset Right and Left.  He only quotes … [Read more...]

Taschen Text by Bruce Benderson ISBN 978-3-8365-1452-1   This very large – or tall – book, is not entirely user-friendly. But if you have a taste for what might be called the Higher Sissiness, you won't be too concerned. All the … [Read more...]

American Studies Mark Merlis   Subtitled 'a novel', this is something of a biography in disguise.  The most substantial character, Tom Slater, is based on FO Mattiessen.  He was a major English (literature) scholar.  He committed … [Read more...]