One Good Thing

Years ago, in my college days at HC, I helped an English professor of mine, Steven Jobe, with the bibliography section of a book he was putting together with another editor. The book, Dearly Beloved Friends (University of Michigan Press), is a collection of Henry James' letters to younger men, many of them artists. The letters themselves are often very homoerotic and teasing, which is not something I would generally associate with James (at least not the teasing part). I've been sporadically ...