11 Jul Challenges and Opportunities for Equality in Kenya

In this thoughtful double character study, and in the film's examination of the personal costs of a draconian penal system, Great Freedom delivers not a neat Hollywood ending but a painful reflection on how an unyielding social order thwarts the human spirit.

Learning Your Own Name

Hello world! My name is Ren. I use they/them/their pronouns. These are not my “preferred” pronouns; these are my pronouns.

A Metanovel Set in the Future

As a prose stylist, White is a master. What he says about Ruggero's conversational style-“full of radical shifts in register from hieratic to demotic, serious to frivolous, flipping lightly from a big subject (the Czech baroque) to a small one (the best way to cook perfectly round potatoes fondant in the oven)”-very much describes his own literary mode. It's a style I'd call Classical High Gay. It will delight some readers and probably turn others off.

A Poet Knocking on the Closet Door

THOM GUNN (1929–2004), though widely recognized as a major British poet of the later 20th century, has often been marginalized by a literary establishment that has never been able to deal fully with his evocative, and explicitly gay, poetry. The publication of Gunn's letters represents the start of what the poet Andrew McMillan has called “a welcome rebalancing.” As well as providing an intimate portrait of Gunn, the letters also give an insight into the origins of this imbalance.