Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay
Hugh Ryan on Truth and Post-Truth in Creative Nonfiction
September 6, 2023
By Hugh Ryan
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Hugh Ryan
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator, and most recently, the author of The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which won the Israel Fishman Stonewall Book Award from American Library Association. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, won a 2020 New York City Book Award, was a New York Times Editors' Choice in 2019, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He was honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association.
Hugh Ryan on the Urgency of Prison Abolition
“Let’s tear down these monstrous warehouses of human misery.”
December 5, 2022
By Hugh Ryan
At the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements
Hugh Ryan on How Afeni Shakur's Incarceration Changed Her Political Thinking
May 12, 2022
By Hugh Ryan
The Deliverance of Douglas A. Martin’s Obsessive Desire
Hugh Ryan on Outline of My Lover
June 3, 2020
By Hugh Ryan
Brooklyn’s Earliest, Secret Enclaves of Queer Life
From Whitman to the Free Black Community of Weeksville
March 13, 2019
By Hugh Ryan
