Book review: Grammars of Creation: Is the Future Just a Tense?: “It is difficult not to be impressed by

George Steiner. Part literary critic, part

existential elegist, he presents himself as

the polymath’s polymath. The erudition is

almost as extraordinary as the prose:

dense, knowing, allusive. In Steiner’s work

the suggestion of total cultural mastery,

from the pre-Socratics to the postmodern,

is inescapable.” New York Times