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Review of Unending Nora, A Novel by Julie Shigekuni, in Colorado Review, Fall 2009 (Review is not online. Order print copy here.)
Review of Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex by Elizabeth Bernstein, on CarnalNation.com, October 3, 2009.
“The Campaign Trail: Canvassing for Obama in Pennsylvania,” on YoungMoney.com, November 4, 2008.
“Get Out The Vote,” on YoungMoney.com, October 24, 2008.
“Green Tips to Fight Climate Change,” on YoungMoney.com, October 8, 2008
“The Biographer: A Profile of Faulkner’s Preeminent Biographer,” in Drew Magazine, Spring 2008.
“Art Pioneers in Sherry’s Gay Artists”
A review of Michael S. Sherry’s Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy in San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 2007
“All the ‘artists’ with a capital A, the parlor pinks and the soprano voiced men are banded together,” warned President Harry S. Truman in 1946. “I am afraid they are a sabotage front for Uncle Joe Stalin.” In the 1971 Watergate tapes, Richard Nixon railed against “homosexuality, dope … immorality in general: These are the enemies of strong societies. That’s why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing it.”
Yet during the same decades, gay cultural figures – such as composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein and playwright Tennessee Williams – played a pivotal role in shaping what became known as American culture. This seeming paradox has led critics such as Nadine Hubbs to ask how gay men could have contributed so much to national identity “during America’s most homophobic era.”
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“Vollmann’s Fervent Tribute to Copernicus”
A review of William T. Vollmann’s Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2006
“Inside Every Religion”
A review of Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation in San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2006
“Who really wrote ‘Odyssey,’ ‘Iliad’?”
A review of Andrew Dalby’s Rediscovering Homer in San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 2006
“Revolutionary Engines of Change: Charting Europe’s Shifts from Religious Uprisings to Red October”
A review of Martin Malia’s History’s Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World in San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 2006