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Books by IGF contributing writers

Nigel Ashford:
A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (editor)
Public Policy and the Impact of the New Right (Themes in Right-Wing Ideology and Politics) (editor)
U.S. Politics Today (editor)

Bruce Bawer:
The Aspects of Eternity: Essays by Bruce Bawer
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy
Coast to Coast

Contemporary Stylist
Diminishing Fictions: Essays on the Modern American Novel and Its Critics
A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society
Prophets and Professors: Essays in the Lives and Works of Modern Poets
The Screenplay's the Thing: Movie Criticism, 1986-1990
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity

David Boaz:
An American Vision: Politics for the '90s
Assessing the Reagan Years (editor)
Beyond the Status Quo: Policy Proposals for America
Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th Congress
The Crisis in Drug Prohibition (editor)
Education in the Inner City

Left, Right & Baby Boom: America's New Politics
Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City (editor)
The Libertarian Reader (editor)
Libertarianism: A Primer
Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century (editor)
Toward Liberty: The Idea That Is Changing the World

John Corvino:
Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality (editor)

Wayne R. Dynes:
Gay & Lesbian Literature (editor)
More books by Wayne R. Dynes

David Link:
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy (contributor)
Positively Gay (contributor)

Eric Marcus:
Breaking the Surface (by Greg Louganis with Eric Marcus)
Icebreaker: The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo
Is It a Choice? Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay and Lesbian People
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights
The Male Couple's Guide: Finding A Man, Making A Home, Building A Life
Out in All Directions (contributor)
Together Forever: Gay and Lesbian Couples Share Their Secrets for Lasting Happiness
Together Forever: Gay and Lesbian Marriage
Why Suicide?

Stephen H. Miller:
Bound by Diversity (contributor)
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy (contributor)

Stephen O. Murray:
American Gay (Worlds of Desire)
American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and Theory Groups
Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities (editor)
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature (editor)
Latin American Male Homosexualities (editor)
Male Homosexuality in Central and South America
Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society
Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America

Walter Olson:
The Excuse Factory: How Employment Law Is Paralyzing the American Workplace
The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit
The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law

Matthew Parris:
Great Parliamentary Scandals
The Great Unfrocked: 2000 Years of Church Scandal
I Couldn't Possibly Comment: Sketches & Follies From the Commons Again
Look Behind You! Sketches and Follies From the Commons
Read My Lips: A Treasury of Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said

Jonathan Rauch:
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy (contributor)
Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks On Free Thought

Richard E. Sincere Jr.:
Civil Defense: A Moral, Political, and Strategic Approach
The Politics of Sentiment: Churches and Foreign Investment in South Africa
Promise or Peril: The Strategic Defense Initative (coeditor with Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Sowing the Seeds of Free Enterprise: The Politics of U S Economic Aid in Africa

Andrew Sullivan:
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy (contributor)
Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex and Survival

Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con
Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality

Paul Varnell:
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy (contributor)

Norah Vincent:
The Instant Intellectual: The Quick and Easy Guide to Sounding Smart and Cultured

Hastings Wyman Jr.:
The 1989 Guide to Southern Politics

Books Reviewed

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Aaron Copland : The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
By Howard Pollack
IGF review by Paul Varnell

The Antigay Agenda
By Didi Herman
IGF review by Hastings Wyman

Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
By Michael Rocke
IGF review by Jonathan Rauch

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
By George Chauncey
IGF review by Paul Varnell

Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism
By Bernadette J. Brooten
IGF review by Wayne R. Dynes

Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945
By Ina Russell
IGF review by Bob Roehr

Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America
By Dudley Clendinen, Adam Nagourney
IGF reviews by Stephen O. Murray and Jonathan Rauch

Ravelstein
By Saul Bellow
IGF reviews by Andrew Sullivan and Paul Varnell