Tag: Biography

Lizzie Borden has survived in American folklore because the case never quite settles into one shape. ...

Roosevelt wants France managed. De Gaulle wants France recognized. Somewhere between those two positions, De Gaulle: ...

Mountains invite a peculiar kind of arrogance. Stand far enough away and they become objects, shapes ...

Sylvester Stallone turns down increasingly absurd sums of money for a screenplay while broke, unknown, and ...

The investigation in The Assassin(s) keeps changing the feeling of the room. A discrepancy that initially ...

Canada has always had a complicated relationship with American spectacle. It consumes it, imitates it, mocks ...

The first three episodes spend so much time trying to turn John Nixon into an action ...

Accessibility has a peculiar political afterlife. Once a curb is cut, a ramp installed, or a ...

Ian Charleson’s greatest professional opportunity arrives precisely when his body begins issuing its final warnings. Simon ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky has already written Crime and Punishment, yet the achievement has left him behaving less ...