Casey McQuiston queers the romance genre and U.S. politics in one swoop with this snarky-toned little novel. I don’t actually like romance at all, but I can tolerate this one…
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Milk Fed
September 1, 2024Melissa Broder’s hilarious novel came across my feed when I was looking for contemporary queer literature to update my intro course. It perfectly combines anxiety about (over)eating and anxiety about…
A Gentleman in Moscow
May 14, 2021Initially, I thought: how could a book about a man confined to a hotel for life have enough plot or character development for 450 pages? Yet this turned out to…