Baz Luhrmann’s 'The Great Gatsby' proves to be a triumph of both faithfulness and daring. It conveys some of the novel’s glories and possesses virtues all its own.
With her left hand she says, “See/this masterpiece they’ve given me/then taken it away again./They even call him Son of Man/as if I had no claim on Him. ...
In the art of Diane Arbus, the plays of Shakespeare, or a poem by Mary Karr, my students touch something divine, whose utter familiarity begs to be reverenced.
