The author of The History Boys and The Habit of Art “is all these things, cheerily miserable, miserably cheerful, dictatorially diffident, a mousey egomaniac, and he’s damned if he’s going to explain his contradictions to anybody.”
The author of The History Boys and The Habit of Art “is all these things, cheerily miserable, miserably cheerful, dictatorially diffident, a mousey egomaniac, and he’s damned if he’s going to explain his contradictions to anybody.”