‘Lie With Me’: Beauty, Love and Toxic Masculinity in the Gay ’80s
How do we write about repression and toxic masculinity without valorizing it? Philippe Besson's Lie With Me is equal parts poignant tribute and glaring warning.
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Nora Krug’s ‘Belonging’ Could Serve as a Model for Understanding Collective Responsibility
In graphic novel Belonging, Nora Krug takes a single idea – her family's involvement in the Second World War and Nazi Germany – and pursues it with relentless, forensic determination.
Mavis Staples and Her Pops Helped Get Us There
Greg Kot's I'll Take You There is really the biography of a musical family, centering on not one but two life stories: Mavis Staples', and that of her biggest influence, dear ol' dad.