James A.W. Heffernan

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's Odyssey to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The giving and taking of hospitality are sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ's Last Supper, Macbeth's murder of his royal guest, and Camus'...