The Compass Rose

Ninth Gate [1999] comprehends a number of diverse talents to produce a B movie which has all the makings of a cult classic. Since Roman Pol...

Writing about Philip Whalen this week stirred memories of the time I spent in Kyoto, Japan in 1985. My wife had secured a foreign assignment...

You can talk about the writing or you can talk about the man. Does a man's writing stand for the man, or does the man stand beside his w...

I could certainly write at least a dozen blogs on Philip Whalen, a poet who was once as important to me as anyone I could name. During my ea...

The British-Canadian naturalist, writer and sportsman Roderick Haig-Brown was born 101 years ago in England. After his father was killed in ...

Of all the figures of the fin-de-siecle--the "Gay Ninetees"--the Yellow Decade --last hurrah of the 19th Century's decadence a...

The Third Man is probably the most exotic of all the classic noir films--an amalgam of shadowy menace, seductive corruption, and deeply iron...