The press, the politicians, the think-tankers and the PBS corps of opinion-giving, plagiarizing historians might want to think about toughening up and taking another look at organized religion as it affects our public life. They may have to undergo a few weeks of insensitivity training to get their elbows sharp enough to dig into the Read More
The Tesseract , by Alex Garland. Riverhead Books, 273 pages, $24.95.
O.K., so what's a tesseract? No, it's not expensive Italian flooring, nor is it the new Meredith Monk performance piece. It is, as we learn about 20 pages from the end of this complex and intriguing novel, a four-dimensional object-a hypercube-which, when unraveled and Read MoreEven in New York, where you can probably get any kind of food you want, Cendrillon is a curiosity. Tucked away on the southern end of SoHo, it serves Philippine food, which is not a prospect that brings anything at all to the mind of most New Yorkers. The description of the special the night Read More
