Envy

2nd February 2008 with 0 Comments

Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian Online discusses George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books, and along the way turns up this extraordinary confession:
It really is a brilliant article: angry, personal, affecting, terrifically written. It deserves to be anthologised. I actually dug it out today from a pile of old magazines. It is in the Summer 1991 [...]

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