Readers of this column will have seen my articles from the 1990 and the 1978 stories I came across in my archives, and today I’m writing about one from 2003. This is from a collection of articles in ...

Just when it seemed cop movies had run out of bullets, along come two crime thrillers that hit the bull’s-eye. “Narc” (2002, Paramount, R, $30) and “Dark Blue” (2003, MGM, R, $27) are both hard-edged ...

If Narc scores so highly on the five key measures that scholars use to measure the durability of coalition governments, why is it that it is still perceived to be an ineffective and weak government?

The French have a deliciously helpful phrase for just about everything, and one of the best is nostalgie de la boue. Nostalgia for the mud, roughly meaning an artist's or a reader's fondness for slime ...