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Montréal queer novelist Daniel Allen Cox will be launching his new novel Basement of Wolves on May 5. You may remember him from his last novel, Krakow Melt, about a pyromaniac Polish rebel re-enacting the great fires of history. For his new novel, think: more Cox, but without the burning…

The new must-read from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore questions the top/bottom dichotomy, and all those other gay discontents, in Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?

Mad Men, Proust, and Gay Sex in the 70s all make the reference list for American gay writer par excellence Edmund White’s new work, Jack Holmes and His Friend, serving unrequited love with a big twist and lots (and lots) of sex.

The Montréal launch of Will Aitken’s new book on the Luchino Visconti gay classic takes place this Thursday, Jan 26, 6pm. Mark Ambrose Harris tells us why this canonical tale of pederastic desire – that won the Palme d’Or over forty years ago – is still relevant today.

Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage and Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars, Against Equality’s latest addition to the ship-disturbing critical approach to the neo-liberal middle class LGBT agenda launches tonight, Jan 17 (6pm), at McGill’s Leacock Building (855 Sherbrooke West, Montreal).

Jordan “Van Tassel” Coulombe has been working on a very queer Master’s degree this past year, and besides his already plethoric familiarity with queer classics and gay revisionism, he managed to narrow the year’s non-fiction picks down to these three scrumptious titles. For your lover, friend, or just because you deserve it!

Foregrounding the history of gay bar raids, gendered clothing requirements, sodomy laws, and other carceral histories of policing gender and sexuality, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex challenges the assumption that we can and should reform the prison system to work for us. Review by Conrad Ryan for 2Bmag.

A coalition of Montréal organizations is hosting a book launch on Thursday November 24th for the recently released AK Press title Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith. QPIRG Concordia -1500 de Maisonneuve O. suite 204, Thursday November – 24th, 6:30pm

Few do cool as hot as high-octane celebrity-fashion photographer and star of A List: New York, Mike Ruiz. With a unique approach to the exploration of visceral brilliance, his finely crafted celebrity images have appeared in Vanity Fair, Italian Elle, and Spanish Vogue. He sat down with Troy Ordami to talk about Pretty Masculine, his stunning new photobook.

Naked is photo-art publisher Bruno Gmünder’s latest contribution to the library of books you will want to consider adding to your best friend’s coffee table collection this season. The 8.5×11” inch tome is chalk-full of stark, erotic and effortless photos of Adonis-like hunks that remind me of the famous Dieux du Stade calendar of French rugby players, only perfect-er.