Jan Gay's Sex Variants research: Justin Torres' Blackouts is revenge for the lesbian pioneer.
Jan Gay’s groundbreaking queer research was coopted and misrepresented by straight scientists. But she’s finally getting her revenge.
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Jan Gay’s groundbreaking queer research was coopted and misrepresented by straight scientists. But she’s finally getting her revenge.
Twelve years ago, Justin Torres leaped into the literary spotlight with his debut, "We the Animals." Now, Torres swings for the bleachers in "Blackouts," a transfixing collage of gorgeous prose and manipulated illustrations, with themes of cultural erasure and the effervescence of lust and love. Jus
As a whole, <i>Voodoo Macbeth</i>, Anderegg concluded in his comment, was unable “to reconcile the complexities and contradictions into a fully satisfactory, coherent drama.”
The interest of the USC graduates and students in this historic work and the era in which it was performed is welcome and heartening. It indicates a concern with more substantial and even oppositional artistry.
Tom Von Malder of Owls Head, a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, reviews “Voodoo Macbeth,” “Don’t Look at the Demon,” “Death Knot,” “Back to the Wharf” and