When Ang Lee clinched his first-ever Oscar win with his neo-Western queer film, Brokeback Mountain, almost two decades ago, he took center stage and did not even flinch. Showering his gratitude to ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. When I first read “Brokeback ...

The novelist Michael Cunningham was already in his forties when Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain”—about two young men working as shepherds who unexpectedly fall in love—was ...