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[...] somewhere within that brush of angel's wings there is, even more faintly, the tiny shadow of an idea, inarticulated, that maybe not absolutely all of the serious ugliness and sickness lay in the opponents, the straight, corrupt world, but that some of it, at a much deeper level than the one t…

[...] Ellis's apparent vapidity and abnegation of moral issues tends to conceal a harsh, stony-faced puritanism whereas Wojnarowicz's moral stance emerges from a much gentler and more optimistic view, which nevertheless speaks of a wearing away of the spirit in close, daily observation of the unbea…

Now, after everything possible has been done to the form of the novel the whole future of fiction seems to hang in the balance. Will anyone, apart from scholars, read at all in the future? Surveys suggest that relatively few people read books even now and that of those, the majority tend towards ge…

American Dad, published originally in 1981, was [...] chiefly remarkable for Janowitz's choice of a male narrator and protagonist. It is relatively rare for a woman writer to adopt the male voice [...] women become, in theoretical terms, bisexual and it is rare for them to go further and claim th…

[...] any encounter with Luis tends towards the farcical. When he returns from his business trip to Phoenix he describes the dinner he had with his client, a routine-sounding affair of roasted chicken and cheesecake. Patrick gets anxious, confused "by this alien, plain-sounding list". He asks fever…