<DIV><p>This collection of essays and interviews by the editor of <I>PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art</I> covers a wide range of current topics, such as avant-garde legacies, performance and ethics, art as spiritual practice, and the theater of food. The volume features individual commentaries on the plays of Wallace Shawn, The Wooster Group <I>oeuvre,</I> Robert Wilson and Gertrude Stein, and international theater, with extended reflections on performance in downtown New York City.</p></DIV>