As you may have heard once or twice, we have a little Senate race going here in New York.

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John Ghazvinian is completing a PhD at Oxford University on the early history of tourism.

At the time of writing, Carl Bromley had just returned from a pilgrimage to Truffaut's grave in Paris.

I would call Holy Smoke a drawing-room comedy if the film showed a drawing room, a comedy of manners if its characters had any.

The cold war has been over for a decade but it lingers on the American home front.