Widower's Tango

Earlier this month the death of Clare Peploe was announced in the news . I knew her name because of her association with two Italian filmma...

“’My story is true,’ he said, ‘every word of it. Or, when I say that my story is “true”, I mean at least that I am telling it in a new way. ...

Éric Rohmer (1920-2010) was a gift to filmgoers that so very few ever appreciated. Once he achieved financial independence with the foundati...

Luis Buñuel’s made thirty-two films in three different countries in two hemispheres over the span of a career that lasted 48 years, from 192...

Philip Roth’s third novel, Portnoy’s Complaint , published in 1969, was the ultimate renunciation and celebration of his Jewishness. While t...

Get rid of the miracles, and the whole world will fall at the feet of Jesus Christ. Rousseau  Not until this past week have I had a chance ...

What hath Roth got? – Saul Bellow (1) That box in which a twelve-year-old was twelve years old forever. The rest of us live and grow older ...