Michael Cobb

Michael Cobb is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His most recent books are Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled and God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence. He’s now working on two books: one on goodness, “The Good Book,” and another on statues, ruins, and sexual attachments in the digital age, called “Fagments: Your Love, Life in Ruins.”


Advertisement

Writing on Public Books

Bigmouth Strikes Again

I never expected Morrissey to be a hopeless romantic. But then again, I never expected that I would be one, too. As a struggling queer growing up a generation after the moody singer, I relied on our shared disdain for conventionality and lack of imagination. The misunderstanding and abuse inflicted on him by dumb, unloving […]