Arts
Dancer (Metropolitan)
Colum McCann deserts the working-class backgrounds of his Irish novels to write a fictional life of Rudolph Nureyev. He invents a dancing prose style-floating, glittering, suspended in bright air. We discover how the subject, Nureyev, taught McCann a new way to write.
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