Affirmation in Art...? [003]

"It feels prosecutorial to have spent so long detailing what seems to me the novel’s homophobic logic, but my intent isn’t to condemn Giovanni’s Room . It’s instead to understand how, despite this, the novel offers a kind of affirmation many of our current conversations about art can’t explain. As I’ve said, I don’t think the desire for affirmation is trivial; I don’t think it’s degrading of art.…