Caleb Crain is a writer.Crain's book reviews and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Out, and The New Republic. His first book, "American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation," was published in 2001. His first novel, "Necessary Errors," was published in 2013 and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.