“I believe we’re doing this for your own good.” If one were a patient in an insane asylum in Europe or North America in the

Before the curtain falls: “Death is dark and quiet. No one will ever be able to get me. Hang a big sign on my neck—GONE

Some heroes take a long time getting home. Odysseus wandered for 20 years before rejoining Penelope in Ithaca. Gilgamesh the King returned to Uruk empty-handed

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  The rumours are false. I did not, repeat, did not, panic when the editors of the Review suggested that I choose a film that

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Oooooh, what a wicked little movie. Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man, that is. Polymorphously perverse, to steal an expression. Suggested Alternate Title: Sergeant Howie Meets

  “Amid the confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and system to one another, and to a whole,

Do adventure stories get any better than this? Nah. The emphasis here is on the word story. Think back to your high school days when

Everyone knows that the real power in the North Bronx in ’63 was in the hands of the Italian Bowling League—big men wearing loud Hawaiian

War   To the victors go the history books. The generals know this. This is the knowledge that motivates atrocities. For the losers in war

  Conversation overheard in a Chinese barbershop, between a private dick and a Chinese fence. The fence opens: “Yes?” “Fei tsui jade.” “No, I no