Joan Acocella is the dance critic for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris and Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder.
A richly literate and annotated translation ... Acocella is a masterful midwife to this extraordinary tale. Janice Ross, Los Angeles Times Book Review This moving document ... begs fresh interpretations of [Nijinsky's] life, artistry, ideas and psychological history. Daniel Gesmer, The New York Times