Literature

The Project revives work written by queer authors who were lost during the AIDS crisis. The latest, Colm Ó Clúbhán’s Reasons for Staying, is a masterwork of outsider theatre.

It’s a big week for the writer, artist and filmmaker: there’s a retrospective of his work on at the Tate Britain, and he’s got a new book out, Flower. In both, he asks himself – and the audience – big questions about modern life.

The cult author made the un-auctionable seem indispensable at Substack’s debut auction, where bizarre ephemera turned into high art and surreal moments made for a night as strange as it was sincere.

Another alleged Harry Styles fanfic film is about to hit screens this summer, as Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine star in The Idea of You. How did the internet’s horny teenage fantasies become such big business?

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From New York drag bars to Japanese idol culture, slender winter days are for powering through slender books such as these.