"MOST of the serious-minded Americans I know feel under threat from the deluge of trash that is American popular culture. As a Canadian who has adopted this country, I have a different take on this. I mean, I even love Las Vegas. I think...

I hate trivia radio, but if I didn't write or see patients I would have Radio 4 on all day. Tuning in first thing in the morning has become a great secret pleasure. For the past 20 years, I have lived with someone who...

Hungarian-born playwright and director George Tabori, a legend in Germany's postwar theater world whose avant-garde works confronted anti-Semitism, has died, the Berliner Ensemble said Tuesday. He was 93.Tabori, who as recently as three years ago dreamed of returning to stage to play the title role...

The divided voters of Northern Ireland held the fate of power-sharing in their hands as they began deciding Wednesday which parties should control a Catholic-Protestant administration.For 4 1/2 years, politicians have failed to revive power-sharing, the central goal of the province's Good Friday peace accord...

I Confess is no soap bubble, but a profoundly circumspect investigation of the interrelation of good and evil, the vulnerability of virtue in the Manichean scheme of things, and the competitive tension between man's laws and God's. (p. 19) Christian myth permeates the film. Villette is the serpent in Eden. He has two gardens, one where he first discovers Logan with Ruth, and one in town, which he hires Keller to tend. Ruth first meets Villette at sacramental occasions: her marriage to Pierre a...