Old Stories

A Life Among the Primitive

W. Somerset Maugham Short Story Review

Feb 12

The Luck of Barry Lyndon

William Makepeace Thackeray, 1844

Jan 5

After several freezing, late afternoons by my lonesome

Dec 29, 2024

Old Stories: Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's

How the 1970's Started

Aug 23, 2024

Old Stories: The Thirty First of March

Horace Busby Recounts the Political Life and Death of LBJ

Aug 16, 2024

Old Stories: Hey Babu Riba

Love Behind the Berlin Wall

Aug 9, 2024

Old Stories: WWII Novels

From the Men who Fought the War

Jul 26, 2024

Old Stories: When British Films Were Great

Pygmalion from 1938 and Hobson's Choice from 1954

Jul 19, 2024

Old Stories: NYPD Blue and Seinfeld

Andy Sipowicz and George Constanza

Jul 5, 2024

Old Stories: Truman Capote's Other Novel

"In Cold Blood" and the film "Capote"

Jun 28, 2024

Old Stories: Death of a Salesman

A Uniquely American Tragedy

Jun 21, 2024

Old Stories: The Best Years of Our Lives

Freddy, Homer and Al return from the war, to lives that no longer fit

Jun 14, 2024

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