His four great "prose fictions" (Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz), might appear regressive in their prolonged sentences, and their nested narrative structures, but really they opened fresh possibilities for the novel, especially in its engagements with trauma and atrocity.
Composed of diverse pieces, from novellas to near fragments, it is a volume whose cohesion lies in its engagement with death.
It sounded off a departure from prior material in its engagement with familiar song structures and melody, and in its borrowing from genres – pop, ambient, electro, synthpop, all of which were influenced in turn.
The Martha Graham Dance Company is letting audiences glimpse many periods of its founder's choreographic development in its engagement at City Center.
In spite of its title, "I'm Not There" is a profoundly, movingly personal film, passionate in its engagement with the mysteries of the recent past.
We can do that by urging China and Russia to counsel the North to stop precipitous acts -- and by staying close to South Korea, understanding that a change in leadership in South Korea will not mean a wholesale change in its engagement policy.
Nuance and frankness permeate this collection of essays, in which Chan brings together African and Chinese perspectives to examine evolving Sino-African relations and upend many much-repeated assumptions: that Africa is of critical importance for China, that Beijing sees no risk in its engagement in Africa, and that there is a single Chinese agenda.
He is not, as some of his most strident critics have implied, indifferent to doctrine; it is more that his emphases, and his cryptic silences, have helped coax into view an ideal long cherished by liberal — and, often, lapsed — Catholics: a Church whose appeal lies in its engagement with, and not its retreat from, the wider world.
But where the startup hopes to differ is in its engagement with its customers.
The three paradoxes discussed above will continue to pose significant challenges to China in its engagement with the governance of poverty reduction around the world, in terms of the country's status and standing (rich or poor), its intentions and capabilities to deal with poverty alleviation (responsible or not), and its policy choices (global or domestic).
Yet, one must not forget that on his watch, there were a number of modernisations, especially in its engagement with the media as the Holy See began to communicate to the world via the Internet and Twitter (the latter sometimes in his beloved Latin - the language he used for his resignation statement).
