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Julian Barnes: On Albert Barnes, 8 May 2025
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
by Blake Gopnik.
Ecco, 382 pp., £28, May,978 0 06 328403 6 Show More
by Blake Gopnik.
Ecco, 382 pp., £28, May,
“... a few years before Freud wrote them down), his toxic masculinity and coarseness of word and deed. Blake Gopnik observes that ‘the power he sought, in all things, at all times, had to be a cover for a psyche that always felt powerless.’ For years he had sought the backing of a university as collaborator and eventually inheritor of his collection. Many ... ”