Widower's Tango

Last Monday, the death of Dean Potter was announced in the international press. Best  known as a rock climber and an "extreme sp...

As children, when we read of voyages, we always prefer the voyage out to the voyage back again. If we're lucky, we introduce ourselve...

World War II in Europe ended seventy years ago today. In a country shattered by Allied armies from the east and west, Germans had nothing ...

Of all the conceivable angles from which a response to Albert Camus's novel L'Etranger could've been written, probably the mo...

There are places in America, whole regions, that exist almost exclusively in our imaginations - until a filmmaker comes along and reminds ...

There seems to be an unusually large number of sad anniversaries this year. Over last weekend, the anniversary of beginning of the Khmer ...

When the Kenji Mizoguchi production of The 47 Ronin was begun in 1941, Imperial Japan was at the height of its power in Asia. But by the...