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Queer literature has become maudlin and self-serious. Thank god, then, that New Directions is reissuing the biting satires of Robert Plunket.

Despite attempts to fracture linearity, the present tense can easily serve as a trauma tunnel, narrowing trans life into a singular narrative.

In this month's edition of "Open Book," debut novelist James Frankie Thomas sounds off on Donna Tartt, "American Pastoral," and gay yearning.

LittlePuss Press specializes in work by transgender writers. Its founders also know it’s hard to resist a great party.

Theorist Hil Malatino offers a compelling account of the persistent bad feelings with which trans people often struggle—but it comes with fashionable academic hang-ups that need to be reconsidered.

An Everest thriller, ‘Bad Vegan,’ and Alex Honnold in the Amazon

“This means that ‘transition’ doesn’t start with hormones or coming out. And I don’t think we live in a culture in which that particular transition has an end point.”

Keep up with each month's best songs with one playlist.

Keep up with each month's best songs with one playlist.

Our writers pick out their favourite reads of the past year, including novels from Jenni Fagan, Torrey Peters, Megan Nolan and Alison Rumfitt.