Widower's Tango

It is useless to judge a movie that belongs to a specific genre according to the standards of a different genre. What is required of a comed...

Every now and then I read a review of a movie that has been “revived” – an old film, fondly remembered by all, is given practically a new le...

The days pass with a bewildering acceleration lately. They say that time flies when you’re having fun. I know that it does, but the last thi...

Elizabeth Bishop died 42 years ago today of a cerebral aneurism in her apartment on Lewis Wharf, Boston. She was 68. Torn for so long betwee...

What made me take this trip to Africa?  When I picked up Henderson the Rain King to read earlier this month, I was on a Saul Bellow tear. I...

Americans think they know how to drink – until they visit the British Isles. The English/Irish traditional pub never really translated into ...

The sudden media attention to as many as 14,000 Haitians on the US border with Mexico brought back some bad memories – of the colossal 2010 ...