Widower's Tango

Elizabeth Bishop is one of my favorite poets, not least because she chose to write about exile so much. Loss was a constant in her life. She...

I do not like being moved; for the will is excited, and action Is a most dangerous thing; I tremble for something factitious, Some malpracti...

In 1962 , Dwight Macdonald - political radical and cultural conservative - was asked to contribute to a poll being conducted by Sight & ...

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth. But to sit with b...

Ever since the release of Rob Epstein's The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), a biopic has been in the works. At one point, in 1991, Gus Van...

Gus Van Sant has always seemed to me a filmmaker who refuses to be taken seriously. His films have either been unbearably pixilated, blatant...

A few weeks ago I was in a nearby port city here on my Philippine island, and I was approached by another foreigner, another American in fac...