"An essayist, fiction writer, teacher, scholar and literary critic … Mr. Steiner both dazzled and dismayed his readers with the range and occasional obscurity of his literary references." As one New York Times critic wrote, "His bracing virtue has been his ability to move from Pythagoras, through Aristotle and Dante, to Nietzsche and Tolstoy in […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM on February 4, 2020