Trying to Sound Sincere
November 5, 2025
The queer truth of George Whitmore’s fiction.
Dale Peck
Dale Peck’s most recent books are the story collection What Burns and the novel Night Soil. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at the New School and edits the Evergreen Review.
I Have Secrets
October 30, 2024
Remembering Gary Indiana.
Miss Direction
George Santos won’t be the iceberg that sinks our foundering democracy, merely the orchestra that plays us out.
Gender Doubles
On the Real Housewives.
Bad Faith
Andrew Sullivan first showed up on my radar in 1991, an innocuous blip that gave no indication of the full-frontal assault about to be launched on the American left. I was working for OutWeek at the time, and I’d been tasked with proofing an interview between a seraphically ...
Susan Sontag as Metaphor
Memoir is simultaneously a calculated, often brutal act of excision and a carefully staged magnification.