Isabel Waidner: As If Katherine May Queer communities have often sought

Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows and created safe spaces in underworlds

By its nature

mysterious black feathers and conversations in smoke-filled cars

situating it as a mode of contemporary

Oscillating between reality and dream

Isabel Waidner: As If Katherine May Queer communities have often soughtHamish Hamilton, 2026, hardcover, 192 pages, 20. 6 x 13. 6 cm Two men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very much alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine is an ambivalent parent at best. Lewis is an erstwhile actor, too depressed to attend the big audition that has just fallen into his lap. Korine has tried a dozen dead end jobs but