Widower's Tango

On November 7, the day before Typhoon Haiyan (known as Yolanda in the Philippines) hit the coast of the Visayas Region, I had watched the...

Dear Readers, I was prevented from making further posts in 2013 by Super Typhoon Haiyan (known here in the Philippines as "Yolanda...

Here is a poem, written by Thomas Hardy 114 years ago, which asks a perennial but hopelessly rhetorical question. (It was the Boer War in...

Christmas Carols, songs or hymns sung during the Christmas season, have a history going back to 4th century Rome. The Protestant Refor...

My two favorite writers are George Orwell and Albert Camus. Orwell was born in 1903 and Camus a decade later, in fact a hundred tears ago...

On further reflection (always a mistake), I find that the words I published two days ago - twenty-two days too late - on the occasion of my...

Stanley Kauffmann, who was The New Republic 's film critic for fifty-five years (the length of my own life, so far), died on October ...