Anne Charles

Nov 1, 2024 | glreview.org | Anne Charles

Published in: November-December 2024 issue. JUDY GRAHN is a trailblazing lesbian-feminist poet, activist, and mythographer. The author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, she is credited with fueling the GLBT, feminist, and women’s spirituality movements internationally.             Grahn walked the first picket line of the White House for gay rights in 1965 and co-founded the Women’s Press Collective in the Bay Area in 1969.

Jul 1, 2024 | glreview.org | Anne Charles

Published in: July-August 2024 issue. THE PAGODAA Lesbian Community by the Seaby Rose NormanSinister Wisdom. 376 pages, $18.95ROSE NORMAN’S The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea is the most recent book in the Sapphic Classics Series, published by the journal Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal. The series’ mission is to reproduce key lesbian texts that have fallen out of print and to resurrect other material from the past that may be of interest to current readers.

May 1, 2024 | glreview.org | Anne Charles

Published in: May-June 2024 issue. WILD GEESEby Soula EmmanuelFootnote Press. 240 pages, $17.95THE TITLE of Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel conjures images of migratory birds in flight. And yet, the author informs us that the name derives from a time in Irish history when men left Ireland to serve as mercenary soldiers in continental Europe during those war-torn years from the 16th to the 18th century.

May 1, 2024 | glreview.org | Anne Charles

Published in: May-June 2024 issue. QUEER THEN AND NOWThe David R. Kessler Lectures 2002-2020Edited by Debanuj Dasgupta, Joseph L. V. Donica, and Margot WeissFeminist Press. 391 pages, $28.95THIS LATEST COMPILATION from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (clags), one of the LGBTQ community’s most august academic bodies, presents seventeen lectures by the organization’s annual recipients of the David R.

Nov 1, 2023 | glreview.org | Anne Charles

Published in: November-December 2023 issue. THE SUMMERS: A Novelby Ronya OthmannUniv. of Wisconsin Press. 201 pages, $17.95RONYA OTHMANN’S debut novel, The Summers, begins with a reversal. At the end of the prefatory chapter, the main character, Leyla Hassan, seems to be speaking for the author as she muses: “You always tell a story from its end.