Megan Milks

Sep 6, 2024 | 4columns.org | Megan Milks

My Lesbian Novel Megan Milks The smutty, the sublime, the mushroom metaphors: romance, the Renee Gladman way. My Lesbian Novel, by Renee Gladman, Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 147 pages, $16.95•   •   •Renee Gladman’s new book, My Lesbian Novel, is on one level a romance, following two women as they face conflicts on their way to falling in love. The setup: June (our MC, or main character) has just run into Thena, whom she recognizes from a trip to London sixteen months earlier.

Mar 1, 2024 | 4columns.org | Megan Milks

My Heavenly Favorite Megan Milks Taking a disturbing page from Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lucas Rijneveld’s second novel pens a tortured, hallucinatory love letter to the fourteen-year-old object of his obsession.

Feb 9, 2024 | 4columns.org | Megan Milks

I Heard Her Call My Name Megan Milks In her new memoir, Lucy Sante finds gender euphoria. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, by Lucy Sante, Penguin Press, 226 pages, $27•   •   •Over the past decade or so, trans memoir has tended to fall into two categories. There’s the straightforward version penned by a newly out public figure—directed to a mainstream audience and organized around transition as a main event (or series of events).

Oct 10, 2023 | nytimes.com | Megan Milks |Alison Rumfitt |Tor Nightfire

BRAINWYRMS, by Alison Rumfitt“She had worms in her brain,” a character in Alison Rumfitt’s “Brainwyrms” decides when faced with his mother’s increasingly transphobic zeal. “It was easier to think of it in those terms than to admit that his mother genuinely hated him.”Given the book’s title, it will not be a spoiler to reveal that this character’s mother is, in fact,host to a parasitic virus that is eating her brain. Is that better or worse than more familiar forms of virulent transphobia?

Jun 9, 2023 | nytimes.com | Megan Milks

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. “I walked down the middle of Market Street,” Lou Sullivan wrote in his journal in June 1981, about participating in San Francisco’s gay pride parade.