Widower's Tango

George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia is one of the most valuable first-hand accounts of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) ever writte...

Over the past few months I had a chance to watch many not-so-new films that sometimes surprised me - the ones, that is, that I did not expec...

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...