Widower's Tango

Throughout the long days - thirty-nine in all - of what was optimistically, if erroneously, called a "brownout" that followed ...

The 2004 Irish/UK film production Omagh is a superior docu-drama. The details of the event portrayed in the film are written in ...

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner. Time to descant on a common weakness. Or is it "decant?" MY BATTLE WI...

I have always felt that characters and events I have read about in great works of fiction are at least as real as people I have met ...

G.B. Shaw said that England and America were "two nations divided by a common language." CNN proved the truth of Shaw'...

While I was waiting (and waiting . . . and waiting) for my power to be restored last December, I had, as you might imagine, a few things on...

In his 1920 preface to the collection of stories in  A Set of Six , Joseph Conrad wrote about the background of "The Duel" (wh...