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My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum review –...
With echoes of Balzac and Proust, this tale of obsessive love evokes the dangers and delights of forbidden desireWayne Koestenbaum has built himself a slow-burn reputation as one of America’s sharpest queer iconoclasts, but the title of his latest novel suggests Netflix-ready realism. Will My Lover, the Rabbi be a sober yet uplifting account of the conflict between religious orthodoxy and forbidden desire? Not a bit of it. The book’s central and anchoring fact – the overwhelming desire of a man
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