Widower's Tango

But the swimmer . . . The hypocrite swimmer has himself lost all interest in these arguments. He is intently reaching the shore in his littl...

[I saw the Australian Broadcasting Company's (a kind of Down Under BBC) rebroadcast of the PBS documentary on My Lai on the 19 Septembe...

September 11 is a date consecrated for Americans as the date of the Twin Towers' destruction in New York in 2001. But there was another ...

Few societies are as well mapped-out on film as Japan. Japanese filmmakers are at least as widely known outside Japan as its authors: just a...

It is difficult to think of any politician who has lived to be eighty and still been regarded as a success. What we call a 'great' s...

I was reading of James Hamilton-Paterson's lost swimmer long before my latest arrival in the Philippines. But not long after that, on re...

When the war in Iraq began, the lines for and against it were drawn rather hastily, and as it dragged on, as all modern wars do, it has beco...