Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

“He was a Peter Pan, the puer aeternus. I was abject in my longing for him.”

By Edmund White | January 28, 2025

Love Letters, Libertines, and Last Words During the French Revolution

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Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation

Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation

At What Point Does Resistance Become the Only Choice?

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Edmund White: Reading is a Passport to the World

Edmund White: Reading is a Passport to the World

On Revisiting Books Favorite Books, From Proust to Shakespeare

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