Arts & Letters Daily (25 Feb 2008): "
Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1962 Last Year at Marienbad made little sense to its viewers, but it was perfect for its moment in the history of taste... more
Rudolf Nureyev's urgent need to keep dancing superseded any abstract, Platonic commitment to maintaining the dignity of dance, or of himself... more
Through history, Alan Wolfe says, every new outburst of religious passion has made ecstasy and revelation for some, and led to violence between the chosen and the damned... more
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