Lucky Per is the New Greatest Story Ever Told

The novel is a soul-searcher’s guide to the Joyful…

Valentino: No Gigolo, No Powder Puff

Metrosexual, maybe: A man less troglodytic than the average…

Part 4 of 4, Memory of Murder

Reviewing Bart’s death sentence posthumously

Why Argentines Are Not Hot on Valentine’s Day

February 14 comes in the heat of summer in the southern…

Part 2 of 4, Memory of Murder

Through the 1950s the Double Murder, or Murder/Suicide, and the…

Married to the Tribe

Tango induces tribal love. After tango, coupling with just one feels sort of…

Premonition in On The Road?

“Dean . . . said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York.”…

Part 1 of 4, Memory of Murder

She was a surrogate mother to me. Through her eyes I began to grieve a…

Part 3 of 4, Memory of Murder

A visit to the abode of the accused murderer is bittersweet.

Missing in Patagonia

A brief encounter with a fellow traveler turns into a wrenching What if . . . ? as a young man goes missing after setting…