A Connoisseur of Other People’s Business
The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 Introduction by Hugo Vickers Alfred A. Knopf. 489 pages, $35. Cecil Beaton was many things: photographer,…More
Browsing: Tenth Anniversary Issue
January – February, 2004
Letters to the Editor
H. Lawrence’s Ashes Were Not Eaten! To the Editor: I would like to comment on the article by Alfred Corn, “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” [Nov.-Dec. ’03], specifically on…More
Was Wilde just the product of his times?
Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions Edited by Joseph Bristow Univ. of Toronto Press. 334 pages, $60. Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire by Jeff Nunokawa Princeton…More
The G&LR and I
In 1993, two life-changing events tilted the see-saw of my life from the clouds (a spectacular love affair) to the Slough of Despond (surgery for a non-cancerous brain tumor,…More
The Day After
THE DAY AFTER I gave this talk to the Harvard gay and lesbian alumni/æ group, I was taken to lunch in Dunster House by some undergraduates. After filling our…More