Longitude
   

   Advanced
   Search

   Have An
   Item Number?

   Best of 2003

   Globes & More

   Gift Books

   ABOUT US

      The Business

      The People

      Press

   SMALL PRINT

      Ordering

      Shipping

      Customer
      Service

      Visiting
 
Get a Catalog
 
   Travel With Longitude

   Join Our Partners

 

Gay & Lesbian

Alias Olympia, A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire  • Eunice Lipton • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A fascinating glimpse into Victorian France through the lens of Manet's mysterious model. (FRN220, $13.95)
 
 
All About My Mother  • Pedro Almodovar  •  A vivid and colorful slice of life about women, friendship and loss from the celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. (SPN231, $29.95)
 
 
At Swim, Two Boys  • Jamie O'Neill • LITERATURE  •  A haunting tale of love set against the huge backdrop of Irish politics and the events leading up to the 1916 Easter uprising. (IRE120, $15.00)
 
 
Audrey Hepburn's Neck, A Novel  • Alan Brown • LITERATURE  •  An exquisite short novel about contemporary Japan. (JPN14, $19.95)
 
 
Before Night Falls  • Reinaldo Arenas • Delores Koch • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A deeply moving autobiography, highly critical of the Castro regime. (CBA37, $14.00)
 
 
Berlin Von Hinten  •  Bruno Gmunder Publishing • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, city guide for gay men. (GER112, $14.95)
 
 
Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden, Drought-Resistant Planting Through the Year  • Beth Chatto • Steven Wooster • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Chatto shows fellow green-thumbs how to get their flowers to bloom in gravelly, sandy soil. (GRD01, $35.00)
 
 
The Bostonians  • Henry James • LITERATURE  •  Henry James' satirical novel of the battle of the sexes set in 1870s Boston. (BOS13, $20.00)
 
 
C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems  • C.P. Cavafy • LITERATURE  •  A collection of poems from one of the most highly regarded poets of 20th century poetry. (GRE87, $17.95)
 
 
The Claudine Novels  •  Colette • LITERATURE  •  A series of short novels about growing up female in turn-of-the-century France. (FRN125, $14.00)
 
 
The Colossus of Maroussi  • Henry Miller • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Henry Miller's wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi. (GRE05, $11.95)
 
 
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature  • Byrne Fone • ANTHOLOGY  •  A wide-ranging anthology drawing on diverse sources and genres. (GEN14, $27.50)
 
 
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde  • Oscar Wilde • LITERATURE  •  A one-volume edition of all the works of Wilde, including stories, plays, poems, and essays. (IRE35, $25.00)
 
 
The Condor and the Cows, A South American Travel Diary  • Christopher Isherwood • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Isherwood's 1947 account of travels through South America. (SAM64, $17.95)
 
 
Confessions of a Mask  • Yukio Mishima • Meredith Weatherby • LITERATURE  •  The story of the monk who burned the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. (JPN18, $10.95)
 
 
Cracks in the Iron Closet, Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia  • David Tuller • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An intimate portrait of an emerging gay subculture in modern Russia. (RUS149, $15.00)
 
 
Dirty Havana Trilogy  • Pedro Juan Gutierrez • Natasha Wimmer • LITERATURE  •  A novel of contemporary Havana's steamy underbelly, originally published in Spain -- and banned in the author's native Cuba. (CBA44, $13.95)
 
 
Equator  • Gian Paolo Barbieri • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A sequel of sorts to fashion-photographer Barbieri's "Madagascar", set among the people and landscapes of the Seychelles Islands. (SEY14, $29.99)
 
 
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris  • Edmund White • LITERATURE  •  An intimate portrait of Paris and its many pleasures. (FRN259, $16.95)
 
 
Flaubert in Egypt  • Francis Steegmuller • Gustave Flaubert • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Flaubert's insightful letters and journal entries from his trip to Egypt in 1849. (EGY12, $14.00)
 
 
Forbidden Friendships, Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence  • Michael Rocke • HISTORY  •  A scholarly study of relations between men in 15th and 16th century Florentine society. (ITL443, $26.00)
 
 
Funny Boy  • Shyam Selvadurai • LITERATURE  •  A prize-winning novel about family and society in contemporary Sri Lanka. (SRL01, $13.00)
 
 
Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History  • Whitney Davis • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Essays on gender, sexuality and the visual arts. (GEN20, $22.95)
 
 
Gay Cuban Nation  • Emilio Bejel • LITERATURE  •  An in-depth, scholarly study of homoeroticism in Cuban liteerature, film and society. (CBA50, $19.00)
 
 
Ghost of Chance  • William Burroughs • LITERATURE  •  A novella set in Madagascar by the late hipster outlaw William Burroughs (MAD29, $14.99)
 
 
Greek Homosexuality  • Kenneth Dover • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The classic history of homosexuality in ancient Greece. (GRE66, $20.95)
 
 
Hadrian, The Restless Emperor  • Anthony Birley • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An up-to-date, scholarly biography. (ITL260, $28.95)
 
 
Hindoo Holiday, An Indian Journal  • J.R. Ackerly • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Ackerly (1896-1967) traipses across India as the English tutor to a very handsome and wonderfully homosexual maharajah in this famous account. (IDA115, $12.95)
 
 
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia  • Dan Healey • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Changing attitudes toward gay men and women in urban Russia, before and after 1917. (RUS145, $40.00)
 
 
The House by the Sea, A Journal  • May Sarton • LITERATURE  •  One of many journals by May Sarton, who moved from New Hampshire to live alone in a house on the seacoast of Maine. (USE61, $13.95)
 
 
In Maremma, Life and a House in Southern Tuscany  • David Leavitt • Mark Mitchell • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A matter-of-fact, engaging memoir of renovating an abandoned farmhouse in Italy. (ITL287, $15.00)
 
 
In the Arms of Africa, The Life of Colin M.Turnbull  • Roy Richard Drinker • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A sympathetic, powerful biography of the author of "The Forest people." (AFR89, $17.00)
 
 
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature  • Stephen O. Murray • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A scholarly overview of homosexuality in medieval Egypt, Ottoman Turkey and beyond. (ARB26, $21.00)
 
 
A Journey in Ladakh  • Andrew Harvey • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A well-told account of a 1981 journey by a young English poet in search of ancient Buddhist traditions in remote Ladakh. (HML15, $15.00)
 
 
Kali's Child, The Mystical and Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna  • Jeffrey J. Kripal • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A scholarly analysis of the life and thought of a 19th century Bengali mystic and modern saint. (IDA112, $19.00)
 
 
Keep the River on Your Right  • Tobias Schneebaum • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The haunting, lyrical diary of a young man's experiences in the Peruvian rain forest. (AMZ11, $12.50)
 
 
Kiss of the Spider Woman  • Manuel Puig • LITERATURE  •  The psychological story of a friendship between two Argentinean prisoners jailed for their subversive activity: Molina, a transgendered homosexual and Valentin, a socialist revolutionary. (ARG28, $13.00)
 
 
Land's End, A Walk In Provincetown  • Michael Cunningham • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A brief, loving portrait of Provincetown, the town at the very tip of Cape Cod. (USE254, $16.00)
 
 
The Last Avant-Garde, The Making of the New York School of Poets  • David Lehman • LITERATURE  •  An enjoyable, high spirited account of artistic friendship and collaboration. (NYC75, $16.95)
 
 
Lorca: A Dream Life  • Leslie Stainton • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This new biography of Federico Garcia Lorca offers fascinating insight into the life of one of Spain's greatest writers. (SPN114, $17.00)
 
 
Love in a Different Climate, Men Who Have Sex with Men in India  • Jeremy Seabrook • RELIGION  •  Sexual identify and politics in India. (IDA113, $25.00)
 
 
Machos, Maricones and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality  • Ian Lumsden • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A history and analysis of homosexuality in Cuba, attitudes and issues. (CBA90, $24.95)
 
 
Mama Day  • Gloria Naylor • LITERATURE  •  A glorious novel celebrating the rich culture, familties, language and traditions of the barrier islands of Georgia and South Carolina. (USS23, $13.00)
 
 
Marks of Identity  • Juan Goytisolo • Gregory Rabassa • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A complex, modern novel of Barcelona during the Franco years, originally published in 1969. (SPN25, $15.00)
 
 
Marsden Hartley, The Biography of an American Artist  • Townsend Ludington • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A biography of the troubled American modernist painter. (USE185, $21.00)
 
 
A Meeting by the River  • Christopher Isherwood • LITERATURE  •  Two brothers meeting in India, one a bisexual capitalist and the other a Hindu monk. (IDA114, $15.95)
 
 
Memoirs of Hadrian  • Marguerite Yourcenar • LITERATURE  •  A beautifully written, powerful novel, which takes the form of letters by Roman Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 76-138) to Marcus Aurelius. (GRE133, $15.00)
 
 
Oscar Wilde  • Richard Ellman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Oscar Wilde. (IRE33, $18.95)
 
 
Paradiso  • Josι Lezama Lima • Gregory Rabassa • LITERATURE  •  A baroque masterpiece by Cuba's greatest poet. (CRB128, $14.50)
 
 
Passions of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China  • Bret Hinsch • LITERATURE  •  A well-written, scholarly survey of the traditions of same-sex male love in Chinese literature. (CHN167, $18.95)
 
 
Pictures and Passions, A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts  • James M. Saslow • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A survey of homoerotic images through the ages. (ART29, $20.00)
 
 
The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation  • James M. Saslow • LITERATURE  •  A scholarly, richly informative selection of Michelangelo's writing. (ART30, $21.00)
 
 
Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other  • Laurie Essig • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An engaging, scholarly portrait of post-perestroika gay culture. (RUS146, $21.95)
 
 
Queer Sites, Gay Urban Histories Since 1600  • David Higgs • HISTORY  •  A scholarly history of the gay subculture in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. (WLD32, $29.95)
 
 
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe  • John Boswell • HISTORY  •  Same-sex rituals from ancient times through the Middle Ages. (EUR51, $16.00)
 
 
Secret Places, My Life in New York and New Guinea  • Tobias Schneebaum • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A lively memoir of a spirited adventurous life by the author of "Where Spirits Dwell" and "Keep the River on Your Right." (NGA20, $24.95)
 
 
The Sexual Revolution in Russia, From the Age of the Czars to Today  • Igor Kon • HISTORY  •  A groundbreaking, fascinating history of sex, sexuality and attitudes in Russia. (RUS147, $25.50)
 
 
Singing from the Well  • Reinaldo Arenas • LITERATURE  •  A poignant novel of coming of age in rural Cuba. (CBA51, $12.95)
 
 
The Story of the Night, a Novel  • Colm Toibin • LITERATURE  •  A complex, beautifully written tale of intrigue and sexual politics set in Argentina during the bleak days of dictatorship and Falklands War. (ARG26, $13.00)
 
 
Strawberry and Chocolate  • Tomas Gutiιrrez • Juan Carlos Tabio • LITERATURE  •  The heartwarming story of three neighbors, daily life and intellectual seduction in contemporary Havana. (CBA68, $19.99)
 
 
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties  • Noel Riley Fitch • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vivid portrait of life among intellectual expatriates in post-WWI Paris. (FRN92, $19.95)
 
 
The Vagabond  •  Colette • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A colorful portrait of life in the music halls of early 20th-century Paris. (FRN127, $10.95)
 
 
Voices of Modern Greece, Selected Poems  • Edmund Keeley • Philip Sherrard • ANTHOLOGY  •  A selection of works by modern masters of Greek verse, edited and translated by two noted scholars. (GRE97, $19.00)
 
 
Whale Rider  • Witi Ihimaera • LITERATURE  •  A magical, myhtical novella about a young Maori girl and her relationship with a whale. (NZL64, $8.00)
 
 
Where the Spirits Dwell  • Tobias Schneebaum • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A lyrical account of four years among the headhunters of Asmat. (INS23, $12.95)
 
 
Women of the Left Bank, Paris 1900-1940  • Shari Benstock • HISTORY  •  A well-researched and insightful look at important women in the Lost Generation. (FRN98, $24.95)
 
 
Wonderlands, Good Gay Travel Writing  • Raphael Kadushin • ANTHOLOGY  •  A diverse collection of modern writers on places, people and mostly gay travels. (TVL36, $19.95)
 
 

x


home map   |   book bag   |   advanced search   |   contact us

 
 
(800) 342-2164   (212) 904-1144      115 West 30th St., Suite 1206    New York, NY 10001    USA

Copyright 2004 Geographica, Inc.
site created by bitflip interactive group
powered by metarhythm