Terence Blacker: We need more sex from our authors, not less
‘There ought to be a law against men in their sixties writing lesbian scenes,” declared a critic on Radio 4’s Saturday Review not so long ago. We were considering Craig Raine’s under-rated novel Heartbreak, in which a moment of Sapphic love is described in soft-focus detail. Although the scene is not a highlight of the book, it seemed an unfairly sweeping response, revealing a double-prejudice …
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