Some people celebrate turning 85 with grandchildren, gardening or a nice cake. White has published a gaspingly graphic, jaunty and tender sex memoir: a guided tour of gay desire in which libido is the wellspring of just about everything.

New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

White once estimated he'd had three thousand partners . . . and his prose here, as ever, is so redoubtably stylish that I almost wish he'd enshrined every last tryst in print . . . Line for line, I can't recall the last time I enjoyed reading anything so much.

Harper's Magazine

Gaspingly graphic, jaunty and tender…It's far from a solemn capstone to White's long and distinguished career. More like a mischievous rock-skipping in the moonshadow….excavatory and excellent…In the current political climate, twisting back toward repression, The Loves of My Life, slim as it is, lands louder and prouder than it otherwise might have.

New York Times

The novelist Edmund White lived through the furtive 1950s, when being gay was a crime; the brief, exuberant post-Stonewall years; and the decade when AIDS tore through his community of friends and lovers. But this outline is far more serious than White's joking and explicit memoir, in which pleasure is always the goal…It's all sexy, funny, and romantic, too.

Vulture, "The Best Books of 2025 (So Far)"

Blunt, raunchy, explicit, nostalgic, and unapologetically sex-forward, this memoir will excite, enchant, delight, and, perhaps most of all, make the reader truly appreciate everything that is Edmund White.

Bay Area Reporter

As juicy, ebullient, and ecstatic as [White's] best novels.

The Observer