It’s been almost two decades since celebrated, boundary-pushing writer Wayne Koestenbaum published a novel. He’s back with My Lover, the Rabbi, a book only Koestenbaum could write: hilarious, queer, o...

With echoes of Balzac and Proust, this tale of obsessive love evokes the dangers and delights of forbidden desire

**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

Wayne Koestenbaum’s new novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, is out now from FSG, so we asked him a few questions about writing, reading, and whatever else was on his mind. As ever, Koestenbaum did not disa…

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“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”

“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”

“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”

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My Lover, the Rabbi, out March 17, follows an unnamed protagonist's agonizing infatuation with an aging religious leader.