Review of J.T. LeRoy (2019) by Matt Fagerholm for RogerEbert.com — 25 Apr 2019

At a time when the long-overdue rallying cry for representation has inadvertently limited the type of stories artists have the permission to tell, depending largely on their outward identity, the success of LeRoy’s work—and the countless lives it mirrored—stands as undeniable proof that art should never be constrained by the boundaries of one’s experience.