Nor was there time for more imaginative or personally inflected interpretations of the text — the interrogation of "big ideas" that happens in the kinds of graduate seminars Moskowitz held up as a model.
But despite its increasing popularity, drag remains a deeply political expression, a critique and interrogation of societal ideas about gender and identity.
In place of a sustained interrogation of the idea of the West, Sontag presents an involved love triangle or, rather, a love rectangle: Maryna is married to Bogdan and courted by Ryszard but ultimately in love only with the theatre.
In this collection of fourteen essays, Gass ranges widely across the cultural landscape, offering appreciations of Italo Calvino and Peter Handke, a keen interrogation of the idea of the masterpiece, and a whimsical look at the virtues and vices of lists.
But before presenting the interrogations as a battle of ideas between Spinoza and his accusers, Mr. Ives gives us a snapshot portrait of the philosopher as a young man.
Despite Butler's skillful plotting and absorbing characters, "A Small Hotel" is ultimately a novel of ideas, an interrogation of the limitations and uses of language.
Beyond interrogation, the idea of using preventive detention, and holding people indefinitely is a misguided police.
In an article on Slate.com, Sands claimed that Diane Beaver, the staff judge advocate general who approved 18 controversial new interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, told him Bauer "gave people lots of ideas".
