W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
Portland , Maine At midnight on the Martin Point Bridge, it's pour-ing rain, muggy, and foggy. The weather hasn't deterred Chico Nguyn of Portland, who is huddled under a plastic tarp, smoking cigarettes and baiting striper hooks with chunks of greasy mackerel. Under this...
The Jewish Week 03-22-2002 Not long ago, in better times, Passover became in many ways a feel-good universalist holiday, the stuff of ecumenical model seders and a search for larger themes beyond the story at hand. This year, the Haggadah is stark; the pain...
A government project team completed a package of measures on Monday to tighten Japan's firearms control in the wake of the fatal shooting of Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito in April and of a riot police officer in Aichi Prefecture in May. The...
American and British films dominate this year's Venice film festival, including Brian De Palma's "Redacted" and Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited."Of the 22 movies vying for the Golden Lion, about half are either American or British. All are world premieres.The lineup was unveiled Thursday by...
