Widower's Tango

At the end of his book Down and Out in Paris and London , his exploration of the underbelly - the "dirty handkerchief" side - of...

"His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after  day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into f...

Today is the 10th birthday I have celebrated on this blog, even though I didn't take the time last year to do so. But then, last year ...

When Don Rickles died earlier this month and I read some of the tributes to him, kept brief by the limitations that social media imposes o...

On the death of Fidel Castro last November, I read a story published in The Paris Review about George Plimpton that shed new light on an ...

While there have been moments in the history of film when the American film industry did not have dominion over worldwide film distributio...

Why are there so many lists being published lately? Even respectable news publications have found it necessary to publish lists - of not...