Widower's Tango

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.”   Nothing demonstrates what a cumbersome and ultimately fra...

“God from afar looks graciously upon a gentle master.”   Ten years ago on this blog I compared the two film adaptations of Terence Ratti...

[If there is a single element that I look forward to in an Irish story, besides the marvelous language, I would call it magic . Sean O'F...

Early in his career, Richard Burton was said by one critic to “carry around with him his own cathedral,” meaning that Burton’s resounding vo...

In Evelyn Waugh's second novel, Vile Bodies (1930), there is the scene in chapter V that differentiates Waugh for all time from P. G. W...

When Wilfrid Sheed succeeded Dwight Macdonald as film critic for Esquire in 1967 (try and let that marinate for a moment), he saw Jean Reno...

With Valentine’s Day safely behind me, I turn to a love story: not a romance by any means, but tough, grown-up love between two hardened peo...