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?

By Edmund White | April 30, 2019

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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