Widower's Tango

I have sometimes thought about adopting a dog here on my Philippine island.(1) The thought only lasts for a few moments, and then I dismiss ...

"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means." -Tom Stoppard There is a very popular TV show here i...

It's often surprising to see just how far many people are prepared to go to assure others of their social availability. I watched the Ca...

I have always believed, and have felt rather alone in believing, that, with the exception of his very last, the late, late films of Luis Buñ...

As has happened so often in my life, I decided a few months ago to move. Of the few places that were available for me to occupy here on my i...

3. The effect of islands is almost wholly regressive. Islands infantilize people even as people idealize islands. Those with appetites and n...

In the human imagination, an island represents many things, from a prison to its opposite, an escape hatch. Something strange happens to peo...