The remarkable Jesse Ball is a poetic alien who reads and writes in English.
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Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood's directing skills may have peaked with his 1992 anti-Western.
Just beachie
"Oh no, the half-American children have learned how to open the gate and escaped!"
Decorum
Manners once played a role in congressional disagreements. No longer.
The Long Season
Jim Brosnan's baseball reminscence is a rare bird: Words by a player who can write.
August
If you're visiting Rome in high summer be prepared for a ghost town.
Water and wine
A weeklong sailing trip along the Sicilian coast puts many wines on the table.
Sisters
Andrea Scrima: "Phoebe and Marie, both of us feel like we're not there, but that can't be..."
Fritti, fritti, fritti
When it comes to frying, one man's taste buds pick peanut oil and pastella.
The right thing
In the United States, health care is politicized. In fact, it's about civil rights.
Pyro
Once upon a summer Sunday Washington, D.C. was boiled away... or was it?
Badlands
Malick's first — fresh, unpretetious and American to the core— is his best.