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*[[Review of Enchanted Boy]]<br>(Book Review, [[Alexander's Choice (book)|Edmund Marlowe]], August 6, 2016 )<!-- Added 8-6-16 -->
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::This story of a boy's life in Liverpool aged five to fifteen in the years 1948 to 1958 is told with profound humanity.
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[[Arcadian Dreams]] has just published Dancing with Finn, a collection of six stories by Dutch author Frank Demelzi. Demelzi combines page-turning storytelling with meticulous attention to style and symbolism. This collection marks his debut in English, with translations he helped prepare.  
*[[Two gay trilogies worth a read]]<br>(Book review, [[Bernie Najarian]], March 27, 2016)
<br> [[File:News icon.jpg]] Edmund Marlowe , [[Greek Love Through the Ages]], September 11, 2024
::Many same-sex-attracted MAPs these days profess to feel completely separate from the gay community (sorry, LGBT-ETC-but-no-P community), but in reality, writings that are potentially relevant to us get published fairly often by members of that community. The opposite may happen, too – useful stuff published within our community may be out there for those LGBTs who are brave enough to take advantage.<!-- Added 3-27-16 -->
 
*[[Review of Oscar Browning: A Biography by Ian Anstruther]]<br>(Book Review, [[Alexander's Choice (book)|Edmund Marlowe]], February 1, 2016)
::Oscar Browning (1837-1923), Eton schoolmaster and Cambridge don, widely known as O.B., was an unusually colourful character even by the high standards of eccentricity often found in these ancient institutions.
 
*[[Review of The Judgment of Caesar by S. Saylor]]<br> (Book Review, [[Alexander's Choice (book)|Edmund Marlowe]], January 28, 2016)


::A non-BL novel by a popular historical novelist with an interesting and positive portrayal of a [[pederastic]] affair.
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*[[ Fantastic new resource, The Boylove Library]]
::An impressive new asset for the online BL community that brings the richness of literature to our lives.<br> [[File:News icon.jpg]]  Staff Writer, BoyWiki, March 23, 2024
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<Center> <font size="+2">[[New Book Review by Tom O'Carroll just published]]</font><br>Tom O'Carroll releases stinging new review of "Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar".<br> [[File:News icon.jpg]] Staff Writer, BoyWiki, September 26, 2023
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[[File:My Love Is Like All Lovely Things.jpg|center|200 px|link=New anthology of major BL poet]]
*[[New anthology of major BL poet]]
::A new anthology of boylove poetry was released in the spring of 2023 called, "My Love Is Like All Lovely Things". It is a collection of the works of the British poet and clergyman Edwin Emmanuel Bradford.<br> [[File:News icon.jpg]] Staff Writer, BoyWiki,<br> May 3, 2023
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*[[Review of Lunch with Elizabeth David]]<br> (Book Review, [[Alexander's Choice (book)|Edmund Marlowe]] on December 22, 2015)
[[File:Wolfe. You Can Be a King2.jpg|center|200 px|link=A review of You Can Be A King If You Are Brave by Peter Thomas Wolfe]]
::This is a review of Lunch with Elizabeth David by Roger Williams (1999), of possible interest to some here as a novel mostly about the boyloving writer Norman Douglas.
*[[A review of You Can Be A King If You Are Brave by Peter Thomas Wolfe]]
::You Can Be A King If You Are Brave is the gripping story of Adam Townsend from his adolescence in Australia of the 1970s until his time as a foreign aid worker in Rangoon in the 1990s, though it is in some ways almost two different stories, since the intervening years are covered very quickly. In both stories he has a Greek love affair: in the first as a boy of fourteen with a man, and in the second as a man with a boy of fourteen.  <br> [[File:News icon.jpg]]  Edmund Marlowe , [[Greek Love Through the Ages]],<br> March 1, 2023
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[[File:Messina Il mirto e la rosa.jpg|center| 200 px|link=A review of The Myrtle and the Rose by Annie Messina]]
* [https://www.academia.edu/17178929/Headman_of_Corinth_and_his_Two_Boyfriends Headman of Corinth and his Two Boyfriends]
*[[A review of The Myrtle and the Rose by Annie Messina]]
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::Il mirto e la rosa by Italian author Annie Messina, writing under the pen name Gamîla Ghâli, was published by Sellerio in Palermo in 1982. It was translated from the Italian by Jessie Bright as The Myrtle & the Rose, published by Italica in New York in 2009. <br> [[File:News icon.jpg]]  Edmund Marlowe , [[Greek Love Through the Ages]], August 27, 2022


*[http://www.academia.edu/15096614/Scenario_Types_in_Paederastic_Greek_Myth  Scenario Types in Paederastic Greek Myth by Andrew Calimach]  
[[File:Latin dictionary.jpg|250 px|center|link=Interview with Edmund Marlowe about his most recent projects]]
::The chart that follows presents a global view of the surviving Greek myths centered on [[Pederasty in ancient Greece|paederastic]] desire. They are grouped by categories named “scenarios,” of which four principal types are identified, “Hybristic erastes;” “Enkratic erastes and collaborative eromenos;” “Imprudent [[erastes]] and [[eromenos]];” and “[[Hybristic (dictionary)|Hybristic]] eromenos.” Each scenario type is labeled according to the dominant dynamic of the stories in the group. <!-- Added 11-8-15 -->
*[[Interview with Edmund Marlowe about his most recent projects]]
::Edmund Marlowe breathes new life into the works of author [[Michael Davidson]].<br> (Staff Writer, BoyWiki, July 11, 2022 ) <!-- Added July 11, 2022 -->  
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Books and reviews

A review of Dancing with Finn by Frank Demelzi

Arcadian Dreams has just published Dancing with Finn, a collection of six stories by Dutch author Frank Demelzi. Demelzi combines page-turning storytelling with meticulous attention to style and symbolism. This collection marks his debut in English, with translations he helped prepare.
Edmund Marlowe , Greek Love Through the Ages, September 11, 2024

An impressive new asset for the online BL community that brings the richness of literature to our lives.
Staff Writer, BoyWiki, March 23, 2024


New Book Review by Tom O'Carroll just published
Tom O'Carroll releases stinging new review of "Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse by Nick Basannavar".
Staff Writer, BoyWiki, September 26, 2023


A new anthology of boylove poetry was released in the spring of 2023 called, "My Love Is Like All Lovely Things". It is a collection of the works of the British poet and clergyman Edwin Emmanuel Bradford.
Staff Writer, BoyWiki,
May 3, 2023


You Can Be A King If You Are Brave is the gripping story of Adam Townsend from his adolescence in Australia of the 1970s until his time as a foreign aid worker in Rangoon in the 1990s, though it is in some ways almost two different stories, since the intervening years are covered very quickly. In both stories he has a Greek love affair: in the first as a boy of fourteen with a man, and in the second as a man with a boy of fourteen.
Edmund Marlowe , Greek Love Through the Ages,
March 1, 2023


Il mirto e la rosa by Italian author Annie Messina, writing under the pen name Gamîla Ghâli, was published by Sellerio in Palermo in 1982. It was translated from the Italian by Jessie Bright as The Myrtle & the Rose, published by Italica in New York in 2009.
Edmund Marlowe , Greek Love Through the Ages, August 27, 2022
Edmund Marlowe breathes new life into the works of author Michael Davidson.
(Staff Writer, BoyWiki, July 11, 2022 )