Peter Kurth

Middle age threw me a wicked curve Middle age threw me a wicked curve

HIV-positive since the '80s, I never expected to grow old -- and I really didn't expect to end up with a crooked penis.
By Peter Kurth Sep 28, 2007

  • At her majesty's pleasure

    After a nightmare flight from New York to London, I was thrown into a Victorian hellhole of a prison alongside drug smugglers and rapists. This is my story.
    By Peter Kurth May 1, 2007

  • The dreamer of Brooklyn

    Jonathan Lethem's astonishing "The Fortress of Solitude" places him in the first rank of American novelists.
    By Peter Kurth September 12, 2003

  • "Out of the Flames" by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone

    The scholar who enraged Calvin and inspired the Unitarians was gruesomely executed for writing a book.
    By Peter Kurth November 12, 2002

  • "You Shall Know Our Velocity" by Dave Eggers

    Stop squawking about the money, the youth and the fame -- there's a real writer among us, and Dave Eggers' new novel proves it.
    By Peter Kurth October 31, 2002

  • Who wants to get married?

    I'd hoped that the gay-marriage fight might lead to a reassessment of an institution that's plainly failing masses of people. But that doesn't seem to be on anyone's agenda.
    By Peter Kurth November 20, 2003

  • Quack record

    Bestselling health and fitness guru Gary Null weighs in on AIDS. Almost all of what he says is useless, dangerous and just plain wrong.
    By Peter Kurth May 21, 2002

  • "More, Now, Again" by Elizabeth Wurtzel

    The author of "Prozac Nation" describes being neurotic, smart, sexy, rich, self-obsessed and addicted to Ritalin in her latest dysfunctional memoir.
    By Peter Kurth January 23, 2002

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    The author of the new biography of Isadora Duncan discusses the legendary dancer whose short life was a whirlwind of art, stormy love affairs and tragedy.
    By Amy Standen November 12, 2001

  • "Isadora: A Sensational Life"

    An excerpt from the new biography of dancer Isadora Duncan.
    By Peter Kurth November 12, 2001

  • Dancing in the dark

    I was racing against death when I signed up to write Isadora Duncan's biography -- and winning wouldn't even be my strangest adventure along the way.
    By Peter Kurth November 12, 2001

  • "In the City of Shy Hunters" by Tom Spanbauer

    The early days of the AIDS epidemic, seen through the eyes of a beautiful, enigmatic hero who's not gay, not straight, not bisexual.
    By Peter Kurth June 22, 2001

  • "The Last Days of Haute Cuisine" by Patric Kuh

    A witty, gossipy history of high cuisine shows how America's best restaurants turned into boomer feeding factories.
    By Peter Kurth June 20, 2001

  • Duchess dearest

    A dodgy new book claims that Wallis Simpson was genetically a man and romanced a much younger gay playboy.
    By Peter Kurth January 31, 2001

  • "Afterburn" by Colin Harrison

    It's mean. It's tough. It's ugly. It's male. But is it art?
    By Peter Kurth January 19, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Andrew Sullivan defends his politics
    Plus: You don't have a right to privacy on your boss's time; did HIV+ mom make the right choice?
    Letters to the Editor December 15, 1999

  • "The Trouble With Normal" by Michael Warner

    A sex activist defends the right of gay men -- and everybody else -- to screw around.
    By Peter Kurth December 8, 1999

  • "The Season" by Ronald Kessler

    An exposé by an author who spends his time playing lapdog to the rich promises juicy tidbits and delivers kibble.
    By Peter Kurth November 3, 1999

  • "Pre-Code Hollywood" by Thomas Doherty and "Sin in Soft Focus" by Mark A. Vieira

    A fascinating and important study details the "moral anarchy" of the early, pre-censorship talkies; a volume of classic photographs covers the same era.
    By Peter Kurth October 21, 1999

  • "Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash"

    A close look at garbage comes up with gold.
    By Peter Kurth September 1, 1999

  • Disco Bloodbath

    Violent death doesn't get more FABULOUS than the murder of drug dealer Angel Melendez by party promoter Michael Alig.
    By Peter Kurth August 18, 1999

  • "Tipping the Velvet"

    An exuberant, lusty novel about a lesbian adventuress follows its heroine through the underworld of Victorian London.
    By Peter Kurth July 30, 1999

  • "Merde"

    An investigation of shit yields gold.
    By Peter Kurth May 25, 1999

  • The Diary Of Vaslav Nijinsky

    Peter Kurth reviews 'The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky,' edited by Joan Acocella
    By Peter Kurth February 25, 1999

  • Turkey Shoot 1998

    The worst books of 1998
    By Salon contributors December 24, 1998
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