Remembering Maxine Clair: An essay by W. Ralph Eubanks on Clair’s Masterpiece, Rattlebone
As the African American literary canon grows and is defined and refined, a few bright sparks of creativity continue that eternal pattern of being obscured, whether by evolving tastes or by brighter lights. Maxine Clair’s coming-of-age novel in stories, Rattlebone, is one of those books that deserves to be brought out of the shadows of African American literature and back into the spotlight it so rightly deserves.
A Nocturne for Edmund White
We remember the transformative gay writer and celebrate Pride month with a trio of queer stories of love and lust.
Gary Indiana’s Exuberant Venom
The hater was at his most affecting when confronted with obsessive love, a feeling that commingles tenderness with disdain. Infatuation opens his characters to, and delimits the extent of their participation in, the world.