Widower's Tango

Out of respect for languages I never learned, or didn't learn thoroughly enough, I usually avoid reading poetry in translation. Of cou...

Thanksgiving Day 1991. I was living in Fallon, Nevada, a small town about an hour's drive east of Reno on U.S. Highway 50, known a...

Joseph Losey's film The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) opens with photographs of Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) from early ch...

With Thanksgiving just a few days away, it may seem like an inopportune occasion to express my ingratitude to all those people, most of whom...

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun an...

In August 1918, pioneering French filmmaker Abel Gance was drafted into the French Army's Service Cinématographique. He had been rejec...

Voting used to be simple, like renewing your driver's license. You heard that an election was looming, maybe you saw the candidate...