Jane Singer, Public Library, and Charlie Hunts, owner of Charlie's Queer Books, recommend four books that showcase LGBTQ+ ...

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Another explores how queer sexuality was coded through subtext and suggestion in classic Hollywood cinema. Still others ...

And, if we may be so bold, one of those priorities really should be to dig into one of the many great new books that have ...

Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

Ocean Vuong’s new novel follows Hai as he takes care of Grazina and works in a fast-casual restaurant to help support them. Told in moments, “The Emperor of Gladness” takes existentialism to ...

Vuong's s gifts of writerly restraint also ... BJ wore cut with the strawberry Starbursts Russia was always sucking on. The Emperor of Gladness is a truly great novel about work — still an ...

Book Review: Ocean Vuong Takes Existentialism to Deeply Intimate Level in 'The Emperor of Gladness' Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” (Penguin Press) is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. New England ...

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal to house him so they can keep each other company in exchange for his help as a kind of unofficial ...