Widower's Tango

“Good day, mother,” said the Princess, “what are you doing?” “I am spinning,” answered the old woman, nodding her head. “What thing is that ...

When Émile Zola decided that he wanted to write a novel including characters belonging to his fictional Rougon-Macquart family set during ...

News of the death of Miloš Forman was announced today. He died last Friday at the age of 86. I was astonished to discover that he was an ...

[Even as the comic book superhero movie Black Panther continues to rake in millions in box office receipts, providing black people with - o...

I read somewhere that A. E. Housman , Oxford scholar and author of the stubbornly popular poem cycle A Shropshire Lad, was a pallbearer at...

Anytime from the mid-1950s, after the first wave of postwar Japanese films swept across Europe and America, until the late '60s, every...

Reading Bright Book of Life , Alfred Kazin's book of ecstatic essays on American "novelists and storytellers," I got to part 2...