Among the finalists for the 2005 Lambda Literary Awards (alphabetical by category), I'm listing the following books and writers, whom I ...

Last night I sat through the Academy Awards, a show that I'd actually said I was going to stop watching a few years ago, after Titanic ...

I shouldn't complain, since I knew I wasn't taking a job in southern New Mexico, and it snows in New York and New Jersey, but still....

This past week was jammed to the rafters with visitors and events. On Tuesday, friend and brilliant writer Thomas Glave came through town a...

The World Baseball Classic has begun, with the first sets of games taking place in Asia. Today Korea beat Taiwan ( Chinese Taipei ) and ...

Recently, twelve major writers published the following manifesto in the Danish Jyllands-Posten in response to the widespread protests and r...

Cross-posted from Mendi O's SWEAT : the deadline has passed, but if you know any poets in New Jersey who're interested, please do st...

I've been thinking some more about the recent legislation in South Dakota banning abortions in almost all cases, and about similar legi...

Seventeen deceased former members of baseball's Negro League and pre-Negro Leagues were elected by special committee today into the Nat...

Today marks my 1-year blogiversary . Although I was initially skeptical of some blogs, which appeared (and still do) to be nothing more t...

I just heard the saddening news this evening that Octavia Butler (1947-2006) passed away after falling and suffering a severe head injury o...

"This [Mohammad Saddique Khan's suicide video manifesto before his participation in the 2005 London bombings], sadly, is the voice...

The season of pre-Lenten celebrations (which are also among the more important cultural manifestations and ritual and performative repositor...

I knew the day was coming soon when I'd have to type these words, as I made clear in my remarks about the Alito hearings and the Roe v....