Widower's Tango

Poverty is the most merciless oppressor that human society has devised. Its products are suffering and ignorance. Or, worse, suffering who...

[Originally published in March 2009, this film review demonstrated to me how long-held opinions occasionally require reexamination.] ...

In February I published an article titled " On Being Childless ". Of the many reasons why having no children doesn't bother me...

[Since the publication of this post three years ago, Eric Rohmer died (11 January 2010) at the age of 89. The post captures what must be one...

[This is a post from 2008, made right after the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Jean-Marie Gustave (or J.M.G. for short) Le Clézio. I don...

Last February, two planeloads of gold and silver (593,000 coins) were transported to Spain from the United States after the government ...

In his marvelous, totally discursive film Caro Diario , Nanni Moretti goes to see an American film some critic had recommended. It was Henry...