The Minneapolis Star Tribune published a nice review of American Voyeur today. Focusing a portion of his review on Boy Crazy, my story about NAMBLA and one of the 16 pieces in the collection, Mark Athitakis writes…

All of those pieces are defined by diligent reporting and unshowy prose; on occasion, as when he writes about frat boys and gay relationships, he openly discusses his own experiences, bringing an honest, self-deprecating tone that avoids editorializing yet clarifies the stakes. All those talents are on full display in the nerviest piece in the collection, a 2001 feature on NAMBLA (the North American Man/Boy Love Association) titled “Boy Crazy.” The group is typically dismissed as a laughingstock or denigrated as a terror, but Denizet-Lewis finds a more nuanced story in which the group, as he writes, “badly overestimated both the inclusiveness of gay liberation and the breadth of the sexual revolution.” Giving voice to its members makes him no NAMBLA apologist: He damningly notes that membership “is, and always has been, remarkably short on boys.” But a thread that runs through nearly all of these pieces is that lives can be ruined forever by fear and misinformation about sexuality, which obliges him to get his facts just as correct with pedophiles as with young teens coming out. It’s a difficult but critical strain of journalism, and “American Voyeur” testifies to its importance.

For another recent review of American Voyeur, check out Steve Weinberg’s story in Jewish Journal.