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Oscar Wilde

Talent vs. Genius

He is not much read today, but when his book Talents and Geniuses appeared in 1957, the exemplary public intellectual Gilbert Highet could count on two things.

Smuggler: A Memoir of Gay Male Literature

Smuggler

The discovery of that kiss changed me. Reading, which had seemed a retreat from the world, was suddenly more vital, dangerous, and necessary.