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Robert Hughes’ description of Goya is tinged, unconsciously, with the image he himself presents to the public: the art critic as macho, for whom the acuteness of response to the occasions of sensibility becomes one of the fine tests of masculinity.
by Roger Gathman
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Louis Begley recently wrote a glowing preface to a reissue of The Other House, James’ least known novel. Begley is one of the few fans of the book, and writes that “James makes manifest in this very remarkable novel the overpowering force and ignominy of the sexual drive.” Obviously Begley is after something like that here. But if this was the inspiration, it was not a fortunate one.
by Roger Gathman

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