The monastery—the citadel built as refuge from the world, the flesh, the devil. The monk pronounces Noli me tangere (‘touch me not’)—Christ’s words to Mary Magdalene…
Chapter 1 The December 2013 Smithsonian has Ron Rosenbaum’s interview of stage and film director Julie Taymore—she of the glorious staging of The Lion King…
THE MONK’S WALK / Paul Laurence Dunbar In this somber garden closeWhat has come and passed, who knows?What red passion, what white painHaunted this dim…