Widower's Tango

And lonely as it is, that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less - A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expressio...

In so many ways, Stanley Kauffmann is an astonishment. One of them is that he turns 97 today. Another is that he continues to comment on f...

Last June, Queen Elizabeth the Second, fresh (if that is the word for an 87-year-old woman) from the soggy festivities of her Diamond Jubi...

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." For months I've been trying to write something about Adam ...

'Tis the cause makes all, Degrades or hallows courage in its fall. -Byron What madness the Cold War seems today. A forty yea...

I would choose heartlessness over brainlessness any day of the week. So it is impossible for me, in remembering Margaret Thatcher, to f...

“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, s...