Gay lives: homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette

The man of letters and the don: John Addington Symonds and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Auden & Co.: Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender

The detective and the comedian: J.R. Ackerley and Quentin Crisp

Three French novelists: André Gide, Jean Genet, and Julien Green

Two American diarists / Jeb Alexander and Donald Vining

The closet and its discontents / Andrew Tobias, Martin Duberman, and Paul Monette.