Author Archives: robers57

Summary: Red is Not the Only Color is a collection of short stories that narrate the lives of modern Chinese women who are struggling to understand the intimacy they share with other women. The short story, “Brothers” by Wang Anyi … Continue reading →

Summary: Yukui Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask details a man’s self reflection and personal analysis in attempt to understand his childhood desires towards both men and gruesome death as well as how he fought these desires by trying to love … Continue reading →

Summary: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde is an account of Audre’s life as she grows up, struggling to understand issues of race, gender, and sexuality while detailing her experiences with friends and lovers who Lorde … Continue reading →

Summary: Samuel R. Delany’s part two of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, “…Three, Two, One, Contact: Times Square Red” argues that our democratic society requires both contact as well as networking interactions; in order to encourage contact interactions, there … Continue reading →

Summary: Part one of Samuel R Delany’s Time Square Red, Times Square Blue offers a variety of anecdotes regarding Delany’s experiences on Forty-second street and Eighth Avenue including his peers’ opinions on the city’s movement in closing their frequented theaters … Continue reading →

Summary: James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room narrates the relationship between an American, David and his lover while in Paris, Giovanni that is complicated by David’s conflicted feelings about loving a man, as opposed to his fiancée Hella; these feelings ultimately lead David to … Continue reading →

Summary: The second half of Evangelos Sachperoglou’s translation of Cavafy’s collection of poems offers a variety of representations concerning the significance of the relationship between art and sexuality. Cavafy’s “Before They Are Changed by Time,” describes a young couple whose … Continue reading →

The first half of Evangelos Sachperoglou’s translation of Cavafy’s collection of poems offers a variety of poems in which Cavafy uses specific historical events to describe generalized situations while playing with irony and subjectivity; he also advocates art as a … Continue reading →

Summary: Oscar Wilde wrote his letter, De Profunis, to his old lover while in prison; he explains that he’s writing to him out of love and desire to help Lord Alfred Douglas realize his faults and understand the way he … Continue reading →

Summary: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest details the stories of two men, Jack and Algernon, who both create alternate egos in order to split their time between living in the city and the country; their other personas ultimately … Continue reading →