These essays are essentially book reviews dressed up for book publication but some of the writing is really interesting. The first essay, Roaming the Greenwood, is a review of Gregory Woods’ A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (which I have read), and it’s fascinating. There are essays on many others; the most interesting for me were ones on the painter Francis Bacon, Roger Casement, Thomas Mann, and James Baldwin. And Oscar Wilde, because no matter how many times I read his life story, even in short form, I find it completely addictive.