Who am I, really? It happens in the quiet moments when you’re lying awake at night, or in the middle of a conversation when someone asks, “Tell me about yourself,” and you pause, unsure how to sum it ...

With The Boyhood of Cain he makes his fiction debut, presenting a novel that acts as an update on classic boyhood stories but through a queerer, more poetic lens. We sat down with Amherst in the ...