Widower's Tango

Thanks to the vivid illustrations by “Phiz” (Hablot Knight Browne) and George Cruikshank, Dickens’s books were already halfway to the cinema...

Punishment Park is a film being made by a West German film crew, narrated by an Englishman. We are shown, in a line of military trucks, a ...

Sometimes a sense of duty is misplaced. Last May I read James Joyce’s Ulysses simply because, as a literarian, I couldn’t realistically go ...

On this day, 76 years ago, an atomic bomb, nicknamed “Fat Boy,” was dropped by an American B-29 Superfortress and detonated at 11:02 Japanes...

Robin Williams always made me nervous. His protean free-association stand-up comedy seemed in equal parts antic and frantic to me. Watching ...

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. ...