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...book's case against James seems the angriest and least clear. Anderson's debatable point is that as an arch-"imperial-self novelist" James made the artist more important than his real subject: life. Anderson gets even grouchier when dealing with his fellow critics, who have been "emotional collaborators" in all this madness. "It is a well-kept secret essential to understanding the cultural moment," he writes bitterly, "that those over thirty who are occupied with literature believe works of art to be more real than life...