For much of the last year, I have been immersed in the novels of Muriel Spark. It’s had the effect of making me feel not quite myself. Spark would probably...
Music, we often hear, expresses emotion that verbal language cannot. It may be the most mysterious of the arts. “As long as I can remember, music has moved me,” says...
There may be no better contemporary chronicler of the war between the sexes than Neil LaBute. The film director, playwright, and fiction writer has explored other topics in his work,...
While the sheer number of material objects available for purchase skyrockets, it seems that people are finding it more difficult to choose among them. How else to explain the increasing...
Rafael Gonzalez is incredibly shallow, exceedingly cocky, and an inveterate womanizer–but he’s strangely sympathetic anyway. As played by Guillermo Toledo, who can tell a story in the raise of his...
Amazon.com opened its “doors” for business ten years ago yesterday. Its first order was for a science textbook. One might be forgiven for not knowing this–the company now sells everything...
