Volume 21, Number 18 · November 14, 1974
The Charm of Insolence
By Robert Mazzocco
Myron
by Gore Vidal
Random House, 244 pp., $6.95
It is Gore Vidal's fancy that in every Myron a Myra is struggling to be born. That is an old fancy. Jehovah had it too. Only Vidal, though, seems to have pursued it, in novels and essays and plays, with such civilized abandon and amiable malice, either as a sly vendetta against our puritanical past or as a prophetic fable of our androgynous future.
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