What would you be willing to do for a friend from 20-odd years ago if you suddenly learned they were on the verge of becoming homeless or found them ...

Michael Lucey
Michael Lucey teaches comparative literature and French at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (2003) and Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (2006). A sequel to Never Say I, titled Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from Colette to Hervé Guibert, will be published in early 2019. He is at work on “Proust, Sociology, Talk, Novels.”
Sexuality, Counterfactually
Larry Kramer’s The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart is not all that interested in the history of sexuality. At first glance this might seem an odd assertion to make about a novel that ...