Queer is also a difference. These are not facts. Mere musings. Statements I've heard before. Some days I find them agreeable. Some days not so. I contradict myself. Queer, those of us who diverge and ...

Nelson Algren was a postwar US novelist whose fame appears to have slipped in recent decades. His best-known book, The Man with the Golden Arm, was made into a critically acclaimed film by Otto ...

Lewis Hodgson: It was probably 2000, so I would’ve been nine turning 10. My family had just got dial-up internet at home and my dad was trying to download Lou Reed’s Transformer off Napster, song by ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Lou Reed performs live at the Carre Theatre in Amsterdam on March 9, 1975 ...

Effectively closing what had been a key year in glam rock, Lou Reed’s sophomore solo effort Transformer swiftly left its mark upon the face of popular culture, with the former Velvet Underground ...

Transformer was universally praised for its well-constructed anatomy of a touchstone album. Now expanded to interweave the original broadcast version with the bonus features on the original disc, the ...

Some of the songs covered in our Retro Record column are important to the LGBTQ+ community because of rather subtle connections—be they suggestive lyrics or perhaps the fact that the musician has a ...