Izumi is a woman on the edge who never wants to stop teetering. In “Set My Heart on Fire,” set in 1970s Yokohama’s underground music scene, the groupie narrator roams from conquest to conquest, and ...

Izumi Suzuki is a Japanese author who prior to her writing career of the 1970s and ’80s worked as a model and actress. Her fiction was largely of the science fiction variety (two books of short ...

Opening track ‘Whole Life’ is instantly recognisable. It follows many of the distinctive themes Perfume Genius uses - especially in No Shape - but opens up the album to something beautiful, flowing ...

Emerging Queer Voices is a monthly LGBTQ arts and culture column that features different up-and-coming LGBTQ writers. You can read more about the series and find all published editions here. While ...