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From Gregory to Gloria: How DEI Shapes the Remembrance of a Hemingway
A surprising detail appeared in the recent New York Times obituary of Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s last surviving son, who died at the age of 97. The article referred to his sibling this way: Hemingway’s third child, Gloria Hemingway, was … Continue reading
A new biography of C. P. Cavafy
Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography (G. Jusdanis and P. Jeffreys, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) has been released recently. Its review in the TLS starts with: Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863–1933): a poet of obscure history and an eroticism so gentle, … Continue reading
Paul Yonnet on Gide
From Zone de mort, Stock, 2017 (not translated) : This book of correspondence ends with an excerpt from Paul Valéry’s Notebook 24. In it, he noted down a conversation he had just had with André Gide, in 1925. Gide, who was … Continue reading
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An Art-Filled Weekend in Chicago
Despite the ridiculous name change (Painting His World) – to make it more “inclusive” according to the Chicago curator Gloria Groom, I enjoyed the Caillebotte exhibition at the Art Institute (Painting Men). The focus and commentary beside the works remain … Continue reading
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Cabinet secret
St Sebastian, Guido Reni, c. 1615, Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa D’où la possibilité qui t’est donnée de te constituer dans chaque musée que tu visites ton cabinet secret personnel, accessible à tous, mais où nul à part toi et … Continue reading
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Random Links
La marche des fiertés 2025 par Willam Marx (Le Monde). He’s Here, He’s Queer, He’s the Future King of England, a new Off Broadway play (New York Times).
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Straight Acting: Queer Shakespeare
From the introduction (Prologue) of Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare, Will Tosh, Seal Press, 2024, the best book I have read on this topic: I don’t see the need to look for incontrovertible signs that Shakespeare the … Continue reading
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Yiyin Li remembers Edmund White
A friendship of voracious readers: https://yalereview.org/article/yiyun-li-edmund-white-tribute:
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Gaydar in À la recherche du temps perdu
Baron de Charlus attends his first Verdurin dinner party at La Raspelière with Morel and he misinterprets Dr. Cottard’s gaze as some kind of sexual advance: « Pour M. de Charlus, qui pensait peut-être aux dangers (bien imaginaires) que la présence … Continue reading
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Edmund White on gay literature
In his last book, The Loves of my Life (Bloomsbury, 2025), Edmund White writes these comments which I found interesting : « The Pupil is one of the best gay short stories ever written, unless it’s Conrad’s The Secret Sharer – and he wasn’t even gay! » « Now … Continue reading