For all works by Christopher Winner that are not within the Area 51 or Boyhood Empire categories.
Twilight of an astronaut
Many moons ago I imagined myself an astronaut. I was then in my teens, but my head was in the [...]
Persistence before aptitude
There I was again. Hunched over my paperback Bible, stricken with doubt and eager for inspiration. But this Bible offered [...]
Bringer of bread
In the dog days of early July, when all cooling breezes resolve to leave the city, the aging screenwriter who [...]
Toward the revival of diplomacy
A war is child’s play with morosely adult consequences. A bully tries to snare a weakling as a means to [...]
The spirit of Catanzaro
Italy has long been modern Europe’s foremost repository for offhand clichés. Italians, according to other Europeans, simply could not (and [...]
A husband too far
Birthdays feed on ghosts. Sifting through an antique chest I come upon the 86-page manuscript of a play written by [...]
Too deep
When Alfredo Rampi was trapped in a well near Rome in June 1981, Italy came to a halt.
Rome: Not with a bang but a whimper
What, you ask, is it like to live in a diminished Rome in which a disruptively contagious virus has been [...]
Memex to the present
Personality cults may be dead, but there's a new tyranny — that of the "I" — and it matters.
Robin Williams
The alien within us has limits, at least when hundreds of personalities vie for attention.
Devil’s advocate
Vladimir Putin may be a barbarian to the West, but his Crimea move wasn't premeditated.