Saul
Startling and sublime - even the candles got a round of applause: Glyndebourne’s Saul reviewed
Caius Gabriel Cibber’s statues of ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Raving Madness’, their eyes staring blindly into the void, petrified in torment, once…
Witness to a stoning
Islam knows it is under siege – and the fear makes it more brutal
Roberto Calasso’s retelling of the Hebrew Bible is both exasperating and beguiling
Robert Alter 18 December 2021 9:00 am
Robert Alter is both exasperated and beguiled by Roberto Calasso’s intellectual potpourri