Widower's Tango

Rebecca West was 25 when, 100 years ago, her first novel The Return of the Soldier was published. The First World War wasn't to conc...

The following thoughts are completely off-the-cuff - in fact they are provoked by a clip I ran across on YouTube, taken from what (I gues...

Though they were in power for only 75 years, the Soviets saw great significance in anniversaries. The 10th anniversary of the October Rev...

Patricia and V. S. Naipaul I feel obliged to write a few passing words on the passing of V. S. Naipaul , who died on Saturday. I had k...

"The notion of secrecy is central to Western literature. You may say the whole idea of character is defined by people holding specifi...

Over the past several weeks, I have had the immense pleasure (tinged with some disappointment) of seeing once again the twenty-episode B...

It was announced today in the news that a federal judge in the U.S. has blocked the online publication of the blueprints for a 3-D printed...