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ERIC NEWMAN

Eric Newman is a writer, critic and researcher whose work explores questions of race, belonging, identity and utopian imagination twentieth century queer American culture. A former reporter for Condé Nast and Nielsen Business Media, he is currently the Gender & Sexuality editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, co-host and executive producer of the LARB Radio Hour on KPFK LA 90.7FM, and a lecturer in English at UCLA. He lives in Santa Monica.
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“Call Me by Your Name” Gets a Dubious Sequel in André Aciman’s “Find Me”

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“Call Me by Your Name” Gets a Dubious Sequel in André Aciman’s “Find Me”

Eric Newman reviews “Find Me,” André Aciman’s underwhelming sequel to “Call Me by Your Name.”

Is That All There Is?: Queer Culture and Politics on the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall

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Is That All There Is?: Queer Culture and Politics on the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall

Much has changed in the 50 years since the flashpoint of the modern LGBTQ movement, but there is still much more to do.

Technicolor Saints and Celebrated Outlaws: An Interview with John Rechy

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Technicolor Saints and Celebrated Outlaws: An Interview with John Rechy

Eric Newman speaks with John Rechy about his latest novel, “Pablo!,” and the struggles and pleasures that have attended his long career as a writer.

The Self in Sex: Lust and Loss in Jonathan Dollimore’s “Desire: A Memoir”

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The Self in Sex: Lust and Loss in Jonathan Dollimore’s “Desire: A Memoir”

Eric Newman considers Jonathan Dollimore's "Desire: A Memoir."

Between the Sheets: Sex, Power, and Literary Desire in John Rechy’s “After the Blue Hour”

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Between the Sheets: Sex, Power, and Literary Desire in John Rechy’s “After the Blue Hour”

Eric Newman appreciates the lessons of “After the Blue Hour” by John Rechy.

The Intimate World of Edmund White

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The Intimate World of Edmund White

The latest from America’s fabulist of post-Stonewall gay life documents an increasingly narrow vision of a queer world.

Queer Kinship: Truman Capote’s Early Stories and the Queer Child

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Queer Kinship: Truman Capote’s Early Stories and the Queer Child

Blueprints of the august, confident and delightfully acerbic writer-to-come.

The Feels of Friendship

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The Feels of Friendship

Same-sex friendship and homoeroticism in Korean dramas

Republic of Trauma

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Republic of Trauma

Roxane Gay has written an important and unforgettable new novel that expertly navigates the emotional terrain between captivity and freedom, trauma and healing, the personal and the political.

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