Barney Panofsky is one of Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler’s finest creations. He smokes too many cigars, drinks too much whiskey and has a life of dashed hopes to reflect on as he approaches old ...

“Barney’s Version” never won the awards — or reviews — that it deserved, especially for its actors. But it became a word-of-mouth hit in Baltimore, at the Charles, and it should gain new fans when it ...

If ever a television series captured the gritty essence of police work, it wasn’t “Dragnet,” with its just-the-facts dispassion, or “Hill Street Blues,” with its urban blight, or any version of “Law & ...