Posts tagged with "3stars"



MiniReview: "The Folding Star" by Alan Hollinghurst
03 September 2023
Review of a 1994 novel by one of my favourite novelists.

MiniReview: "Camere Separate" [Separate Rooms] by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
02 January 2022
Review of a seminal Italian gay novel from the 1980s by Pier Vittorio Tondelli.

MiniReview: "Paragraph 175" (film)
29 June 2021
Review of an important documentary about the persecution of the LGBT community in Nazi Germany.

04 November 2020
Review of a very recent play about gay life.

30 January 2020
In some people's eyes, this is the classic gay novel. But how many people have read it? Well, I did (for the second time).

25 January 2020
Review of a 1970 film that's about to have a remake.


22 April 2019
Review of a classic gay novel from the 1970s.

16 January 2017
What is it? A novella, originally published in German in 1912, first published in book form in English in 1925. What is it about? Do I really need to tell you? Oh boy, does that sound snobbish?! (An aside: Have you ever noticed how, just because someone knows about something, they assume everyone knows about it?) Okay, here goes: It's the story of an esteemed German writer, Aschenbach, who falls in love with and/or becomes obsessed by a beautiful adolescent boy during a visit to Venice and...